Discharge Housing Coordinator RBKC615860

Discharge Housing Coordinator RBKC615860

Job Summary:

Salary range: £37,575 - £41,286 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 21st April 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 7th May 2024

About Us:

We have three Adult Social Care teams based in St. Mary’s Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and Charing Cross Hospital. Our aim is to facilitate safe discharges from hospital with the appropriate level of care and without any unnecessary delays. We work collaboratively with the hospitals’ Discharge Hubs and other medical staff to ensure that people are assigned to the appropriate discharge pathway and that there is an emphasis on reablement and regaining independence wherever possible.

The Role:

You will support the safe and timely discharge of people from an acute hospital by working with LA housing partners to ensure people's care needs can be met. 

This Tri-Borough role will be co-located within the hospital discharge teams at Chelsea and Westminster, St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospitals, working closely with hospital discharge teams and the discharge hub as the single point of contact for housing related issues impacting someone’s planned discharge. 

You will lead the development and implementation of the hospital/housing discharge support and pathways for housing across Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham, working in close partnership with Housing and other key partners.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information

About You:

We want to talk to people who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people and are able to work in a fast paced and exciting work environment. Our hospital discharge team is looking to recruit someone to work with local people to support their discharge or to prevent unnecessary admission to a hospital by working with local housing partners, health teams and our social workers. This is a unique role that will offer you the chance to work within a diverse and exciting team environment.

We are looking for someone who has good IT, verbal and written communication skills, and you’ll have exceptional negotiation and influencing capabilities, with the ability to get people to see your viewpoint and provide a great deal of comfort to people at their most vulnerable moments. You don’t need a social worker or other similar qualifications, but we do want you to have had experience of working within a Local Authority or Health setting, ideally with an understanding of housing-related issues.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
 

Please note, that we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk/spam folder as our system-generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk