Vulnerable Adults Sample Clauses

Vulnerable Adults. Social Care In the absence of any generic or primary care based social work provision, the social workers in the CMHT will retain responsibility for meeting those social care needs of vulnerable adults that meet the Council’s FACS eligibility criteria. Such adults may not have involvement with a consultant or with other members of the integrated team. They will typically be people who may present a danger to themselves or others if they do not receive a service but whose situation may fall between specialist teams. The choice of a mental health social worker involvement will relate to the skills needed to work with that person. The CMHT Team Manager will monitor the caseload allocated to individual workers and make decisions about the urgency and priority of referrals to CMHTs Team Managers are accountable for the delivery of the service, resource allocation and caseload management. The Team Manager will ensure that they are aware of, and monitoring, the total team caseload through referral allocation, assessment and case reviews undertaken and, through individual supervision, team meetings and all available team data. The Team Manager will be responsible for ensuring that work undertaken in relation to social care assessments and any ensuing provision as in accordance with Salford City Council’s FACS standards and requirements. ANNEX E SALFORD CITY COUNCIL GREATER MANCHESTER WEST MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST SECONDMENT POLICY

Vulnerable Adults. 5.1 The Safeguarding Adults Policy, Procedure and Good Practice Guidance, defines a “Vulnerable Adult” as: Adults who are in receipt of, or may be eligible for, community care services.

Vulnerable Adults. Advisors must be aware of the policy, procedure and pathway for referral of vulnerable adults.

Vulnerable Adults. In acknowledging that some service users would fall outside of the eligibility criteria for learning disability services wherever the line is drawn, there is a need for a clear definition of other “vulnerable adults” who may, on occasion, qualify for services which are best provided within the learning disability specialism. In these cases the criteria would be: • a person who is believed to have a learning disability or borderline intelligence but does not have a definite diagnosis and • is at immediate risk from death, serious harm, serious exploitation or neglect and • help is not available from any other service In such cases, help and advice will be provided on a short term basis with the aim of moving service users out of specialist learning disability services into mainstream services as soon as possible This service user group is not entitled to ongoing services from the learning disability specialism and intervention from specialist learning disability services in relation to people who do not meet the normal eligibility criteria will be exceptional