Job summary
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older adults is a well-established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based in Fulbourn, Cambridge/ Peterborough and Fenland. The team offer intensive support and treatment at home, and in care homes, for older adults with mental health challenges, including the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The service we offer includes:
Crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from mental health hospital. Dementia Intensive Support which offers a practical and a psycho-educational approach to care within patients' homes and care homes.
We are strong, passionate, and cohesive team with a wealth of clinical experience and knowledge and are looking for a person to join us who will have the following attributes:
- A similar passion for working with older people.
- A desire to develop and enhance the teams existing skills and knowledge.
- Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in very busy team.
- Experience in carrying out Clinical assessment including robust risk assessments.
- A strong team-player
- Motivated by a desire to make a difference
- Provide clinical structure within the functional pathway
- Contribute to team meetings and offer a lead role within the teams
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older people to provide a mental health service seven days a week, within a community setting, by providing a psychosocial assessment to those who present with a range of mental health problems.
- To work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment.
- To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership structure support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis.
- Provide support and guidance to the band 6 members of the team to aid in care planning and treatment options/pathways for functional patients within the crisis team service
- To provide assessment to those at risk of being admitted to hospital and provide care, support and treatment within a community setting or facilitate admission to hospital and promote rapid discharge.
- To provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
- To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs.
- To provide support for the team lead, assist with supervision and training within the team as required
- To provide a crisis and home treatment service to patients, which incorporates dementia intensive support.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information and detail.
- Screen referral to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely
- Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
- Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
- Undertake risk management; practising safely and accordingly to individual service user needs.
- Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients.
- Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner.
- Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
- Supervision and discussion on patient care planning
- Support the team lead in the day to day management of the team
*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information and detail.
- Screen referral to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely
- Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
- Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
- Undertake risk management; practising safely and accordingly to individual service user needs.
- Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients.
- Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner.
- Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
- Supervision and discussion on patient care planning
- Support the team lead in the day to day management of the team
*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or equivalent AHP or Social work qualification.
- NMC or HCPC registered
- Demonstrate continuous professional development within the relevant fields
- Non - Medical Prescriber qualification or working towards
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Enhanced clinical skills qualification in relevant field.
Experience
Essential
- Proven record of advanced experience and achievement in mental health assessment, care of adults and/ or older people
- Evidence of effective leadership management in multi-disciplinary teams
- Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of older adults
Desirable
- Have lived experience of mental health challenges.
- Experience of people management
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Experience of clinical supervision and leadership
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good working relationships with a wide range of people.
- Demonstrates understanding of legislation relating to work with Older People.
Desirable
- Previous Crisis home treatment team experience
- Experience of working within an emergency mental health setting
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Clear understanding of psychotropic medication and monitoring the effects and potential side effects
- Understands and adheres to the principles of confidentiality.
- Able to utilise electronic patient records systmone.
Desirable
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates empathy for and awareness of concerns of others.
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check and takes constructive action and calms others down
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
Other
Essential
- Positive approach to older people
- Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
- Ability to travel across the county - sometimes at short notice, and regularly within catchment area.
- Flexibility to work over five days per week, to support the delivery of a 12 hours service if the need arises.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or equivalent AHP or Social work qualification.
- NMC or HCPC registered
- Demonstrate continuous professional development within the relevant fields
- Non - Medical Prescriber qualification or working towards
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Enhanced clinical skills qualification in relevant field.
Experience
Essential
- Proven record of advanced experience and achievement in mental health assessment, care of adults and/ or older people
- Evidence of effective leadership management in multi-disciplinary teams
- Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of older adults
Desirable
- Have lived experience of mental health challenges.
- Experience of people management
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Experience of clinical supervision and leadership
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good working relationships with a wide range of people.
- Demonstrates understanding of legislation relating to work with Older People.
Desirable
- Previous Crisis home treatment team experience
- Experience of working within an emergency mental health setting
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Clear understanding of psychotropic medication and monitoring the effects and potential side effects
- Understands and adheres to the principles of confidentiality.
- Able to utilise electronic patient records systmone.
Desirable
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates empathy for and awareness of concerns of others.
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check and takes constructive action and calms others down
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
Other
Essential
- Positive approach to older people
- Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
- Ability to travel across the county - sometimes at short notice, and regularly within catchment area.
- Flexibility to work over five days per week, to support the delivery of a 12 hours service if the need arises.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
