Job Description

Case Management Officer

Duration: Initially 4 months
Hours: 35 hours per week
Rate: 26 umbrella an hour ( 20 PAYE an hour)
Requirement: Based on site and in the community

Lewisham Council are looking for a Case Management Officer to join their Community Mental Health Team in Deptford.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily to support discharge and FLOW
• Supporting those on your caseload to attend community appointments that will offer future support, supporting medication arrangements on discharge and working with the care coordinator in keeping care plans and other documentation up to date
• Support around care act assessments and lots of carer contacts
• To be the key point of contact within Health and Social Care services for eligible clients completing assessments and reassessments of need/resource entitlement
• Provide high quality information to vulnerable adults, carers and relevant stakeholders in order to promote wellbeing and prevention initiatives
• Develop peronalised support/care plans with individuals

Requirements:

• Knowledge of support planning and personalized outcomes
• Knowledge of how mental illness impacts on the lives of individuals and their families
• Knowledge of preventative and reablement approaches
• Ability to assess and manage the range of risks that mental health service-users may experience
• Extensive experience of working in a health or social care environment
• Extensive experience of working directly with mental health service users
• Evidence of formal development within the field of health or social care, to equivalent of NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience