8a Home First Alliance Lead (OT)

As our Home First Alliance Lead, you will develop the provision of, and provide clinical and operational oversight to 'Home first' which is a multi-agency initiative for Admission Prevention.

Through engaging across the system to support multi agency working to cohesively to support individuals with high need who access services and can be at risk of admission to hospital; enabling e individuals to live well in the community and prevent admission to hospital.

Your role is to ensure the system partners and agencies are working to wrap around an individual to maximise health and social care outcomes and prevent admissions to hospital.

If you like to know more about the role, please contact Georgina Foulds to book an appointment.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide dedicated time to lead on developing the Home first pathway.

2. Lead on the development of the Home first initiative- establishing firm links with all agencies involved and building relationships and mobilising the programme.

3. Maintain links with other change idea initiatives being developed.

4. Report on the initiatives progress, outcome, and impact in the Surrey Heartlands ICS Financial Recovery Workstream, admission prevention and Quality of life outcomes for people accessing the service.

5. Provide supervision, direction and support as required to staff in the initiative.

6. Support the recruitment and retention of the relevant staffing for the initiative.

7. Maintain a flexible approach. Demonstrate the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines and be able to change plans to meet service delivery needs.

8. Demonstrate appropriate behaviour in stressful and difficult situations. Support and where appropriate counsel all members of staff. Support and advise all staff when they encounter difficult situations.

9. To ensure people who use services, and their families / carers are engaged with the model development and are actively involved.

10. To report on the Key Performance Indicators set out and within the given timeframes

11. To present the Home first initiative AHP workforce at internal and external meetings as required

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.