Senior Case Worker

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.

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.