Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker | HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Do you want to be part of an innovative and exciting service, that will support children and young people with acute mental health problems in their homes? If so then a role in the Closer2

Home service may be the job for you! This service operates across Dorset including Poole and Bournemouth BCP. The Closer2

Home team works together to deliver a specialist service to help young people remain at home who otherwise would have been admitted to an inpatient hospital. The service operates 365 days a year from 8am-8pm.

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. You will be responsible for delivering time‑limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people who would otherwise have been admitted.

• Undertake a range of delegated clinical duties in a community mental health setting, involving direct and indirect care of patients under minimal supervision.
• Support patients under the guidance of qualified staff, following personal development planning and targeted training to work more autonomously.
• Develop a broad underpinning knowledge base at intermediate level and evaluate information and communicate with a range of professionals.

Service commissioned by the South West Provider Collaborative. Dorset Health Care is committed to empowering people, and has received an ‘Outstanding’ CQC rating in 2019. We run 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people. Our workforce of 7,000 values diversity, inclusion and offers a supportive workplace.

For the main duties and responsibilities of this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application, please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents.

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Applicants requiring current Skilled Worker sponsorship are not eligible to apply for this position.

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