Adolescent Outreach Senior Case Worker and Social Worker

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an experienced band 7 Social Worker to join as a member of our established Adolescent Outreach Team. The team are really fortunate that we have an experienced full multi disciplinary representation, and high levels of retention of staff. The MDT are skilled and highly committed to supporting the wider network, parents and carers to support young people to remain at home, and if required to come to hospital facilitate a safe discharge and reduce length of stay.

We are looking to recruit an experienced band 7 Social Worker to join as a member of our established Adolescent Outreach Team. The team are really fortunate that we have an experienced full multi disciplinary representation, and high levels of retention of staff. The MDT are skilled and highly committed to supporting the wider network, parents and carers to support young people to remain at home, and if required to come to hospital facilitate a safe discharge and reduce length of stay.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work within AOT as a Senior Case Worker providing Care Coordination and Assessment of an agreed caseload of AOT clients and will have the primary Social Worker role servicing the Social Work function in AOT.

The post-holder must be committed to effective team working and to the coherent delivery of the care this will include individual, family, group work and telephone support

The team are always looking to develop the service to meet the needs of the young people and their parents/carers, this role would be at the forefront of this.

The team has strong working relationships with our local inpatient service (Aquarius), SLP inpatient units (Snowsfields and BAU), Tier 3 community CAMHS, CAMHS Emergency Care Team (CECS), CAMHS Crisis Line and CAMHS Bed Management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To liaise and interface with multidisciplinary staff within service area.
• To liaise and work with external agencies, in particular Local Authority Children’s Services and CAMHS Community Services (Tier 3).
• To be responsible for investigating and advising with regard to complex and highly sensitive and often confidential information, relating to safeguarding cases and other cases where there are high risk social factors
• To provide written reports for a variety of purposes and audiences including social circumstances reports for Mental Health Tribunals and Managers’ Hearings; safeguarding investigation reports; social work reports for use within the Service and for communication with external health and social care organisations and possibly for the Courts; periodic audits and evaluations of aspects of service; periodic analytical reports on social work and social care practices and issues within the service area for the Directorate and/or for the Head of Social Work.
• To develop and provide consultation to other services and agencies. This may include consulting to individual clinicians or to multi-disciplinary teams, comprising the full range of mental health professionals, including Social Services, Health Services, Educational Services, Housing, Police and CJS and voluntary and other statutory agencies
• To supervise less experienced social workers in day-to-day clinical practice
• To maintain up-to-date and detailed knowledge and awareness of relevant legislation (including its application to unusual circumstances that occur in specialist mental health services), guidance and Trust policies and procedures, and to work within these.
• To maintain high standards of professional practice, working at all times in the best interests of service users and carers,
• To work closely with all members of relevant service to achieve the best possible outcomes
• To promote the interests and welfare of all patients and their families with particular reference to the
• To lead on adult and child safeguarding within service area and to act as a key point of liaison for the team between the Service and local and regional statutory children’s and adults safeguarding and child protection services within Local Authorities and other partner agencies.