Job overview
We are looking for a full-time Social worker to join our CAMHS Outreach Team, providing specialist community-based support to children and young people experiencing complex and pervasive mental health difficulties. The service works with those who may struggle to engage with traditional clinic-based provision, offering flexible and responsive care within homes, schools, and community settings.
We enthusiastically welcome the knowledge and expertise of a Social worker to our experienced multidisciplinary team. The role requires close multidisciplinary working to ensure coordinated, high-quality care throughout the young person’s journey in mental health services.
You will hold a clinical caseload, acting as key worker, completing assessments and formulations, developing care plans and risk assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, and maintaining accurate clinical records. The role also includes the opportunity to be trained in and deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Main duties of the job
- Collaboratively assess, plan and provide evidence-based interventions for children and young people referred to the CAMHS Outreach.
- Once trained, partaking in the delivery of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescence (DBT-A) provision, including participation in all modalities of the therapy, being part of the on-call phone coaching rota and DBT skills group.
- Work closely with a range of agencies including Social Care, schools, and other CAMHS teams to meet the needs of children and young people and develop integrated services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Hold a clinical caseload, act as key worker, complete assessments, develop care plans, deliver evidence-based interventions, and maintain accurate clinical records.
- Require close multidisciplinary working to ensure coordinated, high-quality care throughout the young person’s journey.
- Will be trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and contribute to the team’s DBT-A provision, including skills groups, treatment planning, and phone-coaching on a rota basis, potentially including early evening hours.
- Collaborate with families, schools, Social Care, and other CAMHS teams to ensure integrated and effective support.
- Involvement in service development, clinical governance, audit, and supervision of junior staff or students on placement.
- Ongoing professional development, supervision, adherence to safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, and professional standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Social work qualification with a valid Social work registration.
Experience
- Post-qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental illness.
- Desirable: Experience of working with children and young people who have pervasive, chronic mental illness and their families and carers in the community.
Qualities
- Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self and others.
- Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice.
- Desirable: Willingness to be flexible.
Benefits
- Excellent opportunities for career progression.
- Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development.
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service.
- NHS discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers.
- Competitive pension scheme.
- Lease car scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Mental Health First Aiders.
- Staff accommodation (waiting lists apply).
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.
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