Transforming Care Co-Ordinator

Role Responsibility

An opportunity has arisen for a Transforming Care Coordinator, full time, fixed term for 12 months. This role offers a rewarding combination of working at patient-level, focusing on preventing and minimising stays in mental health hospitals and assessment and treatment units, as well as engaging at a more strategic-level working with teams and informing future plans and strategies.

The Transforming Care Coordinator will be joint funded by Kent and Medway CCG and KCC with the purpose of supporting Social Care, Health and Education staff to progress at pace the care planning and discharge needs of Children and Young people detained under the Mental Health Act and placed in a Tier 4 placement, and work with the whole children’s system to prevent admission or re-admission in a way that works for the timescales of the child or young person.

Advise parents whose child with learning disabilities and/or autism is not already known to the system, supporting them to navigate health, social care, education, children and adults’ services to tackle the poorer outcomes, experiences and social exclusion of people with learning disabilities and autism.

You need to be Social Work England registered with a CQSW, DipSW or equivalent social work degree, and in addition you should have substantial and varied experience of working with children and young people and their carers and families. Experience in either Children’s or Adult’s Services is essential, including child protection and/or adult safeguarding and an in-depth knowledge of legislation and policies relating to both children and adults.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

If you wish to have an informal discussion about this role, please call Rosemary Henn-Macrae on 03000 412050 or Emma Hanson on 03000 415342.