About this role
Job summary
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.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our location:
This post will be based at Springfield Hospital
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
Job description Job responsibilities
To act as a Care Co-ordinator within AOT, delivering timely and accessibleassessment 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.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications Essential
Masters Degree in relevant clinical subject equivalent experience. Current professional registration in relevant clinical subject/practice e.g. RMN, OT, Social Work, Clinical Psychologist. Evidence of continuing Professional Development Mentorship qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Diploma/BSC in relevant clinical areas Additional qualification in a treatment modality eg CBT, DBT, Systemic Psychotherapy Full and current UK driving licence Family Therapy/Family Work training
Experience Essential
Minimum two years post registration experience, including post qualification and registration experience of working with young people. Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of young people with serious mental health problems who are in crisis. Experience of working with adolescents and families with highly complex mental health needs, high levels of emotional distress and risk taking behaviours. Experience of working with young people who self harm and attempt suicide. Experience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management, with the ability to analyse and make judgements and decisions about treatment plans. Experience of providing specialist advice to other professionals. Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of the application of therapeutic interventions within a multicultural framework. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
Experience in the delivery of psychological therapy, (i.e. DBT/CBT/MBT/FT) particularly for adolescents and families with complex needs and high levels of distress and risk taking behaviours. Experience of working with young people with emerging personality disorder. Experience of working within both inpatient and outpatient/community CAMHS. Experience of contributing to policy and procedure development and implementation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address Springfield University Hospital
15 Springfield Drive
Tooting, London
SW17 0YF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)