Forensic Discharge Facilitator | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen to join Secure Services Guild Lodge as a Forensic Discharge Pathway Facilitator (Inpatient Social Worker). The post holder is required to be a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration.
The Discharge Pathway Facilitator is an integral member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team. The post holder will work in close partnership with a range of agencies and organisations internal and external to LSCFT to offer social care input. They will take a lead role from pre-admission by completing a holistic social work assessment, identifying any social work needs, undertake family work and support with discharge planning.This includes early identification of barriers to discharge, taking action to prevent any unnecessary delay to discharges, and facilitating complex multi-agency case discussions in relation to discharge.
Secure Mental Health Care for Lancashire and South Cumbria is provided at Guild Lodge, Whittingham.
Guild Lodge consists of 3 main service lines (15 wards), which include:- Men's service
- Women's service
- Acquired Brain Injury Service (Men’s)
Caring for adults within Medium and Low Security, and Step Down environments.
This post will be suited to a Social Worker with an interest and knowledge of Secure Mental Health and Offender Health.
The hospital site offers:- Free staff parking
- Onsite restaurant facilities
- Access to newly built housing area with local school
- Our staff receive:
- Full induction and support for those new to the services
- Access to salary sacrifice schemes for cars, electronics etc.
- Interviewer information pack
- Excellent support and Wellbeing services
- Superb external training and development opportunities
- Opportunities to develop leadership skills across differing care environments
Please note: This post is subject to an enhanced DBS Clearance. As part of the pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to pay for their own DBS check at a cost of £50. Deductions will be taken from the first 3 months salary.
If you are not invited to interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates. It is important that applicants log in to the website and check their NHS Jobs account on a regular basis to read and respond to any emails they may have received.If you do not have regular access to email/internet please advise.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks.We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Mar 2025