Senior Case Worker

Job overview

Rare and exciting opportunity in Adolescent Outreach Team. We are looking to recruit an experienced band 7 Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Nurse to work as a member of our established Adolescent Outreach Team. The team are 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.

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 offer expert consultation to the network and referrers.

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.

Main duties of the job

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 also has 2 band 6 roles, which are development posts and this role would be supporting these roles and inspiring our future senior clinicians.

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.

This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity has arisen for a new Senior Case Worker to join AOT

The post-holder will work within AOT as a Senior Case Worker (Social Worker/OT/Nurse) providing Care Coordination and Assessment of an agreed caseload of AOT clients, and offering expert consultation to the network and referrers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To act as a Care Co-ordinator within AOT, delivering timely and accessible  assessment and treatment to young people aged 12-18, who have serious mental illness and who are in crisis.

To work with these highly complex young people and their families, making appropriate useful formulations and providing interventions or making recommendations.

The post holder will enable the effective management of these high risk cases within the community, co-working with Tier 3 where appropriate and avoiding in-patient admissions wherever possible and appropriate.

The post holder will play a key role in assessing the needs and the risk of young people referred into the service and in making clinical decisions about suitability for intensive community based work or need for inpatient admission, liaising with AOT colleagues or on-call medical clinicians and AMHPs, as necessary, to facilitate admission or to devise appropriate crisis management plans to meet safety and treatment needs in the community.

The post holder will work closely with inpatient colleagues to ensure that length of any admission is kept to a minimum and repatriating as soon as possible any young person who may have needed to be admitted to an inpatient bed that is out of area.

There is also a need to liaise with colleagues in Adult Mental Health Services and Early Intervention Services to ensure that effective transition arrangements exist for clients who are likely to require ongoing support after the age of 18.