Job summary
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 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.
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 offering expert consultation to the network and referrers.
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.
We would also consider this post as a development post opportunity for an experienced band 6 starting at a band 6 working in a supported way to meet milestones to reach criteria for a band 7.
Main duties of the job
This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity has arisen for a new Senior Case Worker to join 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 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.
Agile and flexible working:
In this role you will be able to work 7 days of the week. The shifts will include 8am-4pm, 9-5pm and 12pm-8pm on weekdays and 11am-7pm on weekends and bank holidays, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
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.
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.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To deliver timely and accessible assessment and treatment to young people aged 12-17, who have serious mental illness and who are in crisis.
- To work with young people and their families with highly complex problems, and to make appropriate useful formulations and provide interventions or recommendations. In addition to serious mental illness in the young person, there may be complicating factors such as high risk to self, parental mental illness, family dysfunction, homelessness, child protection, the effects of sexual abuse, co-morbidity and possible offending behaviour.
- To enable the effective management of these high risk cases within the community, co-working with Tier 3 where appropriate, avoiding in-patient admissions wherever possible and appropriate.
- To deliver a service that is at point of contact between the hours of 8am to 8pm weekdays and 11am to 7pm at weekends and bank holidays (this will be on a rotational basis).
- To provide specialist consultation regarding formulations, intervention and risk management to Tier 3 CAMHS colleagues and other agencies within the young persons network.
- To play a key role in cases where in-patient admission is necessary, working closely with Aquarius colleagues to ensure that length of any admission is kept to a minimum.
- To liaise with colleagues in adult 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.
- To participate fully in the referral and allocation process, advising on the appropriateness of referrals for outreach or inpatient nursing intervention.
- To care co-ordinate a small clinical caseload of highly complex and demanding cases, providing a care package which offers the most effective therapeutic response to adolescents and their families.
- To act as co-worker to fellow Care Coordinators, working jointly and collaboratively with other clinicians in the multi-disciplinary team.
- To devise, co-ordinate and deliver specialist assessment and interventions, drawing on a varied range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To deliver timely and accessible assessment and treatment to young people aged 12-17, who have serious mental illness and who are in crisis.
- To work with young people and their families with highly complex problems, and to make appropriate useful formulations and provide interventions or recommendations. In addition to serious mental illness in the young person, there may be complicating factors such as high risk to self, parental mental illness, family dysfunction, homelessness, child protection, the effects of sexual abuse, co-morbidity and possible offending behaviour.
- To enable the effective management of these high risk cases within the community, co-working with Tier 3 where appropriate, avoiding in-patient admissions wherever possible and appropriate.
- To deliver a service that is at point of contact between the hours of 8am to 8pm weekdays and 11am to 7pm at weekends and bank holidays (this will be on a rotational basis).
- To provide specialist consultation regarding formulations, intervention and risk management to Tier 3 CAMHS colleagues and other agencies within the young persons network.
- To play a key role in cases where in-patient admission is necessary, working closely with Aquarius colleagues to ensure that length of any admission is kept to a minimum.
- To liaise with colleagues in adult 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.
- To participate fully in the referral and allocation process, advising on the appropriateness of referrals for outreach or inpatient nursing intervention.
- To care co-ordinate a small clinical caseload of highly complex and demanding cases, providing a care package which offers the most effective therapeutic response to adolescents and their families.
- To act as co-worker to fellow Care Coordinators, working jointly and collaboratively with other clinicians in the multi-disciplinary team.
- To devise, co-ordinate and deliver specialist assessment and interventions, drawing on a varied range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- oMasters Degree in relevant clinical subject or equivalent experience.
- oCurrent professional registration in relevant clinical subject/practice e.g. RMN, OT, Social Work, Clinical Psychologist.
- oEvidence of continuing Professional Development
- oMentorship qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- oDiploma/BSC in relevant clinical areas
- oAdditional qualification in a treatment modality eg CBT, DBT, Systemic Psychotherapy
- oFull and current UK driving licence
- oFamily Therapy/Family Work training
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum two years post registration experience, including post qualification and registration experience of working with young people.
- oExperience of specialist assessment and treatment of young people with serious mental health problems who are in crisis.
- oExperience of working with adolescents and families with highly complex mental health needs, high levels of emotional distress and risk-taking behaviours.
- oExperience of working with young people who self-harm and attempt suicide.
- oExperience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management, with the ability to analyse and make judgements and decisions about treatment plans.
- oExperience of providing specialist advice to other professionals.
- oExperience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- oExperience of the application of therapeutic interventions within a multicultural framework.
- oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- oExperience 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.
- oExperience of working with young people with emerging personality disorder.
- oExperience of working within both inpatient and outpatient/community CAMHS.
- oExperience of contributing to policy and procedure development and implementation.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- oMasters Degree in relevant clinical subject or equivalent experience.
- oCurrent professional registration in relevant clinical subject/practice e.g. RMN, OT, Social Work, Clinical Psychologist.
- oEvidence of continuing Professional Development
- oMentorship qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- oDiploma/BSC in relevant clinical areas
- oAdditional qualification in a treatment modality eg CBT, DBT, Systemic Psychotherapy
- oFull and current UK driving licence
- oFamily Therapy/Family Work training
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum two years post registration experience, including post qualification and registration experience of working with young people.
- oExperience of specialist assessment and treatment of young people with serious mental health problems who are in crisis.
- oExperience of working with adolescents and families with highly complex mental health needs, high levels of emotional distress and risk-taking behaviours.
- oExperience of working with young people who self-harm and attempt suicide.
- oExperience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management, with the ability to analyse and make judgements and decisions about treatment plans.
- oExperience of providing specialist advice to other professionals.
- oExperience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- oExperience of the application of therapeutic interventions within a multicultural framework.
- oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- oExperience 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.
- oExperience of working with young people with emerging personality disorder.
- oExperience of working within both inpatient and outpatient/community CAMHS.
- oExperience 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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
