To Lead and manage the integrated Joint Assessment and Discharge (JAD) Service within the North East London Local Authority.

Duties will be;

• To provide operational management for the integrated Joint Assessment and Discharge Service
• To provide strategic and professional leadership, including professional development and competencies for respective practitioners
• To facilitate safe return home through collaborative working;
• To provide the integrated health and social care support required to discharge patients with social and/or complex medical needs;
• To identify end of life patients who wish to be looked after at home and ensure that they receive expedited discharge with the right health and social care support;
• To minimise delays arising from problems with inter-agency liaison;
• To focus decision making with the service user at the centre of processes;
• To analyse trends e.g. frequent attenders, borough trends, reduction in bed use, increase in community care packages.
• To provide a senior operational interface with other senior staff within the health and social care system
• To provide dynamic leadership of all staff to develop a shared understanding of, and commitment to, the vision To ensure the consistent application of relevant eligibility criteria Fair Access to Care Services, Continuing Health Care and Rehabilitation
• To be accountable for committing expenditure on packages of care and placements
• To ensure service users, including self-funders, receive the appropriate level of support to plan their own packages of care and are able to exercise choice across a range of options
• To ensure arrangements are in place to provide care and support to people who lack capacity, or where there are safeguarding concerns
• To ensure strategic and operational relationships are productive across a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring JAD aims and objectives are understood by all partners

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV