Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Closer2Home Team, which is a new intensive home treatment service that supports young people and families in the community as an alternative to an inpatient admission.

The service operates across Wessex and Dorset, provided by a number of NHS Trusts, working in partnership with the Wessex and Dorset Tier 4 Provider Collaborative (W&D PC) to deliver a clinical model of evidence-based intensive home treatment as a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission.

As a Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker (CASS) you will work as a member of a new multi-disciplinary team which provides an alternative to Tier 4 admission and facilitates supported discharges from hospital. With team colleagues you will be responsible for delivering time-limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people who would otherwise have been admitted.

Young people requiring home treatment will have a range of needs commensurate with requiring inpatient services but be offered intensive home treatment as an alternative. The team will work collaboratively with community CAMHS, children's services, colleagues involved in 'transforming care,' bed and case managers and local inpatient units; with inter-agency networking embedded in the service model.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker (CASS) you will work as a member of a new multi-disciplinary team which provides an alternative to Tier 4 admission and facilitates supported discharges from hospital.

With team colleagues you will be responsible for delivering time-limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people who would otherwise have been admitted. Young people requiring home treatment will have a range of needs commensurate with requiring inpatient services, but be offered intensive home treatment as an alternative.

The team will work collaboratively with community CAMHS, children's services, colleagues involved in 'transforming care,' bed and case managers and local inpatient units; with inter-agency networking embedded in the service model.

The post holder with have specific responsibilities to undertake a range of delegated clinical duties in a community mental health setting. The post holder will contribute to the growth and maintenance of key functions of the clinical area / Team by carrying out assigned tasks, involving direct and indirect care to patients under minimal supervision and as directed by the qualified staff and / or Team Managers.

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If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

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In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

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