Registered Professional Mental Health (Home Treatment Team) - Band 6

Job summary

Band 6 Registered Professional for the Mental Health Access Hub and Home Treatment Team

Based at Avenue House, Nuneaton, working across the North Warwickshire and Rugby geographical area

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

We are currently looking for motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Registered Professionals (Mental health nurses, social workers and OTs) to join our team based in Nuneaton.

Our Mental Health Access Hubs and Home Treatment Teams, which have moved into triage and assessment teams with a separate team for home treatment form part of the community provision for secondary mental health care in Coventry and Warwickshire.

The team will work with individuals alongside other teams and MDTs to determine the required least restrictive interventions to facilitate support, recovery and crisis management.

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.

You will need to demonstrate experience of working with clients with mental health problems or experiencing mental health crisis. You will need to demonstrate strong assessment skills, be willing to take positive risks and able to plan care and implement interventions. You must be committed to working with people with complex needs, ensuring that multi-disciplinary meetings are set up to review the patients health and social needs, to support people in the community as an alternative to hospital admission. The service is an age independent multidisciplinary team. We work with clients 16 plus providing a high level of care.The Service covers a large geographical area and the post holder will need to be confident about lone working and working as an autonomous clinician. There is a shared multidisciplinary approach to planning care. There is a strong learning culture within the team and the successful applicant would be expected to contribute to this.

About us

We are looking for registered professionals who are compassionate, motivated and approachable. In return you will be working within a supportiveteam with strong commitment to excellent customer care.

What CWPT can offer you:

• Excellent progression opportunities
• Support and guidance with preceptorship
• Flexible working
• Excellent staff benefits
• Ongoing supervision and appraisals
• Training opportunities through our apprenticeship scheme

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.