Section 117 Recovery Lead
Devon Partnership NHS Trust · Theatre Practitioner · viaNHS Jobs
£49,387–£56,515 a year
Exeter, South WestContractFull-timeOn-site
- Closing date
- 28 Nov 2026
- Posted
- 2d ago
- Specialism
- Theatre Practitioner
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5724365
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Job summary
We are looking for a motivated, collaborative Section 117 Funding Reviewer to join us in this Band 7 post, play a key role in coordinating our organisational S117 recovery plan.
You will review aftercare placements and funding arrangements for people receiving mental health aftercare services, including individuals placed outside the local area whose care is overseen by the Adult Directorates IPP function.
Your will help ensure that S117 aftercare is clinically appropriate, legally compliant, recovery-focused and value for money. Partnership with clinical teams, commissioners, local authorities, care providers, patients, carers and key stakeholders, you will develop/undertake robust review processes.
You will use your communication, analytical and influencing skills to support effective decision-making and help ensure that each person receives care in the least restrictive setting appropriate to their needs. An opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to patient care plus effective use of resources. Through constructive challenge, proactive pathway management and timely discharge planning, you will help reduce avoidable expenditure for out-of-area and local S117 placements while ensuring that the organisation continues to meet its statutory responsibilities under the Mental Health Act.
Note: This post is currently described as Band 7 but has not yet been through the Agenda for Change job evaluation panel. The final banding is therefore subject to formal evaluation.
Main duties of the job
- Lead on the organisations 117 recovery plan and development of the infrastructure to achieve the required outcomes of the recovery plan.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals placed out of area but are funded by DPT for 117 aftercare in collaboration with the local authority.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules for individuals subject to 117.
- Maintain oversight of all allocated Section 117 funding & be an active contributor to the IPP funding panel for 117.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Identify barriers to 117 discharge and escalation requirements.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Details
Date posted
12 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
18 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9369-26-0860-1
Job locations
Wonford House
Dryden Road
Exeter
Devon
EX2 5AF
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Establish productive working relationships with:
- Local Authorities
- Key Workers
- Responsible Clinicians
- Community Mental Health Teams
- Inpatient Services
- Commissioners, Care Providers, Family Members and Carers
- Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings.
- Attend provider reviews and placement monitoring visits where required.
- Contribute to complex case discussions.
- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and potentially contentious information, requiring developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and reassurance skills. This includes communicating with patients, carers, clinical teams, local authorities, commissioners and care providers regarding Section 117 eligibility, legal responsibilities, funding disputes, high-cost placements, changes to care packages and pathway progression. The post holder will be required to overcome barriers to understanding or acceptance, reconcile differing professional and organisational perspectives, and communicate effectively in situations that may be highly emotive, challenging or occasionally antagonistic.
- Support resolution of disputes relating to funding responsibility and commissioning arrangements.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules.
- Maintain oversight of all allocated Section 117 funding and placements.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals placed in residential, nursing, supported living, rehabilitation or specialist settings.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules.
- Maintain oversight of all allocated Section 117 placements.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Identify barriers to discharge and escalation requirements.
- To be responsible for managing and prioritising own workload to meet internal and external demands
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Review clinical information and undertake holistic assessments to determine ongoing care requirements.
- The post holder will have an allocated portfolio of out-of-area patients whose Section 117 arrangements require review, but responsibility is limited to: coordinating and undertaking Section 117 reviews;
- reviewing whether placements and care packages remain appropriate;
- monitoring review dates, funding and pathway progression;
- identifying barriers and escalating concerns;
- making recommendations to the responsible clinical team, local authority, commissioner or funding panel.
- The patients responsible clinical team, care coordinator or key worker will retain responsibility for ongoing clinical case management, delivery of care and arranging care packages.
- Evaluate whether current placement arrangements remain clinically appropriate.
- Assess risks associated with current and proposed care arrangements.
- Ensure care remains proportionate to patient need.
- Promote recovery, independence, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
- Support development of robust contingency and crisis management plans.
- Escalate concerns relating to deterioration, placement breakdown or safeguarding.
- Contribute to development of Section 117 pathways.
- Participate in service redesign projects.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and patient outcomes.
- Support implementation of best practice guidance.
- Contribute to training and awareness raising across the Trust in relation to 117, supporting the design and roll out of provision.
- Review funding arrangements for allocated out-of-area Section 117 placements, including funding responsibility, agreed cost-sharing arrangements, placement fees, additional staffing and commissioned care.
- Assess whether expenditure remains aligned with current assessed need, identify discrepancies, duplication and opportunities for cost avoidance, and make evidence-based recommendations to the appropriate funding panel or authorised decisionmaker.
- Analyse placement costs against assessed need.
- Challenge inflationary increases and duplicated provision.
- Prepare recommendations for funding panels
- Review high-cost placements, ensuring value for money across all placements..
- Identify savings opportunities.
- Ensure funding decisions are evidence-based and appropriately presented to the relevant panel for consideration.
- Provide advice and support to clinical teams.
- Deliver guidance relating to Section 117 processes.
- Support induction and training activities relating to aftercare review processes.
- Use and maintain electronic patient records.
- Ensure information governance standards are met.
- Produce reports and performance information in relation to 117 requirements. Reports will be developed and agreed upon as part of the development of the role.
- The Data Protection Act and other legislation relating to the release of information
- Maintain accurate electronic records.
- Ensure documentation meets legal and professional standards.
- Contribute to audits of Section 117 compliance monthly.
- Produce reports regarding review activity and outcomes.
- Monitor risks associated with placement provision.
- Escalate placement quality concerns through appropriate channels.
- Support implementation of local and national policy.
- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and potentially contentious information, requiring developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and reassurance skills. This includes communicating with patients, carers, clinical teams, local authorities, commissioners and care providers regarding Section 117 eligibility, legal responsibilities, funding disputes, high-cost placements, changes to care packages and pathway progression. The post holder will be required to overcome barriers to understanding or acceptance, reconcile differing professional and organisational perspectives, and communicate effectively in situations that may be highly emotive, challenging or occasionally antagonistic.
- Support resolution of disputes relating to funding responsibility and commissioning arrangements.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals placed in residential, nursing, supported living, rehabilitation or specialist settings.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Identify barriers to discharge and escalation requirements.
- Review clinical information and undertake holistic assessments to determine ongoing care requirements.
The post holder will have an allocated portfolio of out-of-area patients whose Section 117 arrangements require review, but responsibility is limited to
- coordinating and undertaking Section 117 reviews
- reviewing whether placements and care packages remain appropriate
- monitoring review dates, funding and pathway progression
- identifying barriers and escalating concerns
- making recommendations to the responsible clinical team, local authority, commissioner or funding panel.
- The patients responsible clinical team, care coordinator or key worker will retain responsibility for ongoing clinical case management, delivery of care and arranging care packages.
- Evaluate whether current placement arrangements remain clinically appropriate.
- Assess risks associated with current and proposed care arrangements.
- Promote recovery, independence, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
- Support development of robust contingency and crisis management plans.
- Escalate concerns relating to deterioration, placement breakdown or safeguarding.
- Review funding arrangements for allocated out-of-area Section 117 placements, including funding responsibility, agreed cost-sharing arrangements, placement fees, additional staffing and commissioned care.
- Analyse placement costs against assessed need.
- Identify opportunities for cost avoidance and efficiency savings.
- Challenge inflationary increases and duplicated provision.
- Support negotiations with providers regarding service specifications and fees.
- Prepare recommendations for funding panels and authorisation processes.
- Review high-cost placements.
- Identify savings opportunities.
- Ensure funding decisions are evidence-based and appropriately presented to the relevant panel for consideration.
- Provide advice and support to clinical teams.
- Deliver guidance relating to Section 117 processes.
- Use and maintain electronic patient records.
- Ensure information governance standards are met.
- Produce reports and performance information in relation to 117 requirements. Reports will be developed and agreed upon as part of the development of the role.
- Comply with Data Protection legislation and Trust policies.
- Maintain accurate electronic records.
- Ensure documentation meets legal and professional standards.
- Contribute to audits of Section 117 compliance monthly.
- Monitor risks associated with placement provision.
- Escalate placement quality concerns through appropriate channels.
Job responsibilities
Establish productive working relationships with:
- Local Authorities
- Key Workers
- Responsible Clinicians
- Community Mental Health Teams
- Inpatient Services
- Commissioners, Care Providers, Family Members and Carers
- Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings.
- Attend provider reviews and placement monitoring visits where required.
- Contribute to complex case discussions.
- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and potentially contentious information, requiring developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and reassurance skills. This includes communicating with patients, carers, clinical teams, local authorities, commissioners and care providers regarding Section 117 eligibility, legal responsibilities, funding disputes, high-cost placements, changes to care packages and pathway progression. The post holder will be required to overcome barriers to understanding or acceptance, reconcile differing professional and organisational perspectives, and communicate effectively in situations that may be highly emotive, challenging or occasionally antagonistic.
- Support resolution of disputes relating to funding responsibility and commissioning arrangements.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules.
- Maintain oversight of all allocated Section 117 funding and placements.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals placed in residential, nursing, supported living, rehabilitation or specialist settings.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules.
- Maintain oversight of all allocated Section 117 placements.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Identify barriers to discharge and escalation requirements.
- To be responsible for managing and prioritising own workload to meet internal and external demands
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Review clinical information and undertake holistic assessments to determine ongoing care requirements.
- The post holder will have an allocated portfolio of out-of-area patients whose Section 117 arrangements require review, but responsibility is limited to: coordinating and undertaking Section 117 reviews;
- reviewing whether placements and care packages remain appropriate;
- monitoring review dates, funding and pathway progression;
- identifying barriers and escalating concerns;
- making recommendations to the responsible clinical team, local authority, commissioner or funding panel.
- The patients responsible clinical team, care coordinator or key worker will retain responsibility for ongoing clinical case management, delivery of care and arranging care packages.
- Evaluate whether current placement arrangements remain clinically appropriate.
- Assess risks associated with current and proposed care arrangements.
- Ensure care remains proportionate to patient need.
- Promote recovery, independence, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
- Support development of robust contingency and crisis management plans.
- Escalate concerns relating to deterioration, placement breakdown or safeguarding.
- Contribute to development of Section 117 pathways.
- Participate in service redesign projects.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and patient outcomes.
- Support implementation of best practice guidance.
- Contribute to training and awareness raising across the Trust in relation to 117, supporting the design and roll out of provision.
- Review funding arrangements for allocated out-of-area Section 117 placements, including funding responsibility, agreed cost-sharing arrangements, placement fees, additional staffing and commissioned care.
- Assess whether expenditure remains aligned with current assessed need, identify discrepancies, duplication and opportunities for cost avoidance, and make evidence-based recommendations to the appropriate funding panel or authorised decisionmaker.
- Analyse placement costs against assessed need.
- Challenge inflationary increases and duplicated provision.
- Prepare recommendations for funding panels
- Review high-cost placements, ensuring value for money across all placements..
- Identify savings opportunities.
- Ensure funding decisions are evidence-based and appropriately presented to the relevant panel for consideration.
- Provide advice and support to clinical teams.
- Deliver guidance relating to Section 117 processes.
- Support induction and training activities relating to aftercare review processes.
- Use and maintain electronic patient records.
- Ensure information governance standards are met.
- Produce reports and performance information in relation to 117 requirements. Reports will be developed and agreed upon as part of the development of the role.
- The Data Protection Act and other legislation relating to the release of information
- Maintain accurate electronic records.
- Ensure documentation meets legal and professional standards.
- Contribute to audits of Section 117 compliance monthly.
- Produce reports regarding review activity and outcomes.
- Monitor risks associated with placement provision.
- Escalate placement quality concerns through appropriate channels.
- Support implementation of local and national policy.
- Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and potentially contentious information, requiring developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and reassurance skills. This includes communicating with patients, carers, clinical teams, local authorities, commissioners and care providers regarding Section 117 eligibility, legal responsibilities, funding disputes, high-cost placements, changes to care packages and pathway progression. The post holder will be required to overcome barriers to understanding or acceptance, reconcile differing professional and organisational perspectives, and communicate effectively in situations that may be highly emotive, challenging or occasionally antagonistic.
- Support resolution of disputes relating to funding responsibility and commissioning arrangements.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals.
- Ensure reviews are completed in accordance with Trust, Local Authority and NHS England requirements.
- Monitor statutory review dates and ensure compliance with review schedules.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Coordinate and undertake Section 117 aftercare reviews for individuals placed in residential, nursing, supported living, rehabilitation or specialist settings.
- Ensure care packages continue to meet identified needs and recovery goals.
- Support timely progression through care pathways.
- Identify barriers to discharge and escalation requirements.
- Review clinical information and undertake holistic assessments to determine ongoing care requirements.
The post holder will have an allocated portfolio of out-of-area patients whose Section 117 arrangements require review, but responsibility is limited to
- coordinating and undertaking Section 117 reviews
- reviewing whether placements and care packages remain appropriate
- monitoring review dates, funding and pathway progression
- identifying barriers and escalating concerns
- making recommendations to the responsible clinical team, local authority, commissioner or funding panel.
- The patients responsible clinical team, care coordinator or key worker will retain responsibility for ongoing clinical case management, delivery of care and arranging care packages.
- Evaluate whether current placement arrangements remain clinically appropriate.
- Assess risks associated with current and proposed care arrangements.
- Promote recovery, independence, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
- Support development of robust contingency and crisis management plans.
- Escalate concerns relating to deterioration, placement breakdown or safeguarding.
- Review funding arrangements for allocated out-of-area Section 117 placements, including funding responsibility, agreed cost-sharing arrangements, placement fees, additional staffing and commissioned care.
- Analyse placement costs against assessed need.
- Identify opportunities for cost avoidance and efficiency savings.
- Challenge inflationary increases and duplicated provision.
- Support negotiations with providers regarding service specifications and fees.
- Prepare recommendations for funding panels and authorisation processes.
- Review high-cost placements.
- Identify savings opportunities.
- Ensure funding decisions are evidence-based and appropriately presented to the relevant panel for consideration.
- Provide advice and support to clinical teams.
- Deliver guidance relating to Section 117 processes.
- Use and maintain electronic patient records.
- Ensure information governance standards are met.
- Produce reports and performance information in relation to 117 requirements. Reports will be developed and agreed upon as part of the development of the role.
- Comply with Data Protection legislation and Trust policies.
- Maintain accurate electronic records.
- Ensure documentation meets legal and professional standards.
- Contribute to audits of Section 117 compliance monthly.
- Monitor risks associated with placement provision.
- Escalate placement quality concerns through appropriate channels.
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