NHS Cheshire and Merseyside pathfinder scheme will centralise the commissioning and case management arrangements for patients with complex extended rehabilitation needs across Merseyside and Warrington.
The service will provide specialist support for patients, carers and colleagues across the region, ensuring patients are identified, transferred and case managed through the most appropriate pathway to meet their rehabilitation needs.
The role of the social worker within the case manager team is to provide a trusted assessor role on behalf of locality partners within the designated caseload. The social worker will complete Care Act Assessments, Continuing Health Care triggers and provide expert social care and signposting for patients and families as required.
The social worker role is key to efficient discharges within the IS pathway of care, ensuring safe and effective plans are in place whilst considering appropriate legal and funding frameworks.
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy.
