Senior Case Worker

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.