CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team Health Care Assistant

Job summary

The role of Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Healthcare Assistant will require an individual with the ability to work effectively and with initiative under the direction and leadership from registered professionals in the provision of care to young people and their families experiencing mental health crisis.

The team provides urgent assessment and intensive home treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis. The Healthcare Assistant (this role), will be required to join registered clinicians in assessments and deliver evidence based interventions under the guidance and supervision of registered staff in the team.

The role will be based at either the Hopewood site in Nottingham, Lindsay Close in Mansfield or the Acute hospitals in Nottinghamshire and will have an expectation of working within the community and within local acute hospital settings.

Main duties of the job

Under the direction of a registered professional, participate in the development and maintenance of high quality patient care through involvement in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.

The purpose of the team is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions for young people presenting in mental health crisis by offering rapid assessment and intensive home treatment.

The role will include:

providing evidence- based interventions under the direction of registered professionalscompletion of routine outcome monitoring with young people and their families/carers as required to monitor progress,undertaking recording and reporting clinical observations as directed by registered professionals. Assisting in the treatment /activities for the patient within the home/ community environment.Treating children and young people as individuals and enabling them to achieve maximum potential and independence.As an healthcare assistant within the team, the role will require the ability to work flexibly under the direction of registered staff and will include delivering aspects of intensive home treatment plans to individual families and groups.

About us

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC

Employer details

Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hopewood

Forster Drive, Nottingham

Nottingham

NG5 3FL

Employer's website

https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hopewood

Forster Drive, Nottingham

Nottingham

NG5 3FL

Employer's website

https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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