Registered Professional - Band 6 (Warwick)

Job summary

Registered Professionals - Band 6

37.5 hours, permanent contract

Based at: St Michael's Hospital, St Michael's Road, Warwick CV34 5QW

There are new exciting changes being made to access and referrals into Secondary Care mental health services.

Are you an experienced mental health clinician with a desire to provide the highest quality care to our service users? Do you want to challenge yourself in a fast paced supportive environment where you can continue to grow and develop your skills? If so then we are currently looking for motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Nurses/Social Workers/Occupational Therapists to join our team based in Warwick.

Our Mental Health Access Hub with a separate team for home treatment form part of the community provision for secondary mental health care in Coventry and Warwickshire. We welcome applications from reliable individuals, who are passionate and committed to make a positive difference to our service users.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

As the front door to secondary care mental health, the Mental Health Access Hub (MHAH) receives and triages all referrals into services. The successful candidate will identify any needs using a holistic triaging tool and will refer on to the most appropriate service to meet the needs of the service user. This may include the MHAH conducting and urgent assessment where urgent needs are identified.

The Home Treatment Team provide care and treatment to services users using the least restrictive principles to ensure recovery is achieved at home in order to avoid hospital admissions. This includes intensive home treatment, gatekeeping admissions to hospital and also facilitating early discharge from hospital inpatient units.

About us

Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1st April 2022 all NHS workers in England who have face to face contact with patients must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Only those with specified medical exemptions will be excluded from this requirement. Please consider this mandatory requirement when applying for this position.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. The Trust currently holds a 'Good' CQC rating.

There are a number of available vacancies across Urgent Care Mental Health due to recent changes in the service.

What CWPT can offer you:

• An opportunity to work in a historic town of Warwick covering the geographical area of South Warwickshire.
• Excellent progression opportunities
• Support and guidance with preceptorship
• Flexible working
• Excellent staff benefits
• Ongoing supervision and appraisals
• Training opportunities through our apprenticeship scheme