We are the South Cambridge Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), providing 24/7 care for service users experiencing an acute mental health crisis, to support them to stay in their own home rather than being admitted to hospital. We are based in Cambridge, Essex and Hertfordshire.
We are looking for Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join our team. Whether you are a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, we have an opportunity for you in our team. We are a true MDT and no profession’s voice is louder than another’s.
These roles provide fantastic learning and development opportunities. You will gain experience working with service users with a wide range of presentations and diagnoses. Additionally, you’ll develop your risk assessment skills, crisis management, assessment skills and delivery of brief psychological interventions.
You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clinicians who will support you to develop your skills and understanding of mental illness. We are eager for our staff to develop professionally and have previously supported people to do their non-medical prescribing training, AMHP training and to train in psychological therapies.
Main duties of the job As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will be working within our multidisciplinary team to contribute to our provision of dynamic solution-focused care. In the Crisis Team, we value the different perspectives brought by each of our colleagues. We work with service users experiencing an acute episode of mental illness, so it is vital that we work collaboratively to co-develop a plan to support our service users and their families.
You will be visiting service users in their own home to complete assessments. You will work with the MDT to plan and deliver interventions and work with other supporting services where appropriate.
Another significant part of the role is the management of the inpatient beds. We work on a rota to support the management of the inpatient beds. This is a critical role to ensure that the bed flow is supported and pro-actively managed and requires problem solving and decision-making skills.
Other benefits from joining us are:
Annual leave allowance 27 days plus bank holidays (depending on NHS service)
Full-time/Part-time or job share opportunities
Salary sacrifice scheme
Professional leadership programs for experienced nurses through NHS Academy
Stress awareness training
Mindfulness training
Counselling service
Detailed job description and main 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 refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Screen referrals 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 according 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.
Act as the patients and relatives advocate.
Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
Provide support, information and education to family members, carers and other professionals.
Liaise effectively with referrers and professionals within CPFT, promoting good working relationships and continuity of clinical care.
Supervise junior staff as required.
Act as a role model and clinically expert practitioner within the service.
Participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team, accountable for your practice, and work in partnership with other health care professionals, service users and others in the delivery of care.
Champion patients’ rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect.
Be conversant and proactive with Government legislation pertaining to the Mental Health Act, CPA, National Service Framework, NHS Plan and Clinical Governance.
Represent the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team at meetings.
Ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing.
Participate in the team’s support and training of students.
The post will include flexible working patterns over a 37.5 working hours per week to incorporate cover for 24 hours, 7-day service, including on call if required to meet the needs of the service users & carers.
Person specification Education / Qualifications
Registered Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker
Post qualification specialist mental health training
Experience
Experience of working in a community setting
Experience in leadership role
Experience of developing and providing teaching programmes
Experience of managing and training staff
Qualification in leadership
Ability to deliver mental health awareness and varied concise information
Skills & Abilities
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Effective organisational and time management skills
Clear evidence of effective & safe decision making and problem solving.
Ability to contribute to service development and ability to manage change
Ability to work under pressure
Ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment
Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act
Understanding of therapeutic skills for clinicians required to support patients in an acute phase of illness
Clear understanding of CRHTT practice and treatment objectives.
Commitment to and understanding of IT.
Knowledge of SOVA and Safeguarding policies
Mental Health Act Training
Any additional training relevant to CRHTT intervention
Physical Requirements
Able to cover shifts over a 24 hour period, 7 days a week
Ability to travel across a large geographical patch
Other
Committed to the empowerment of service users and carers promoting their involvement in service delivery
Provide and promote non-discriminatory care
Employer certification / accreditation badges You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sophie Price
Job title: Interim Team Manager
Email address: sophie.price2@cpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01233 219593
Get in touch if you have any questions about the role or would like to book some time to meet the team.
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We are looking for Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join our team. Whether you are a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, we have an opportunity for you in our team. We are a true MDT and no profession’s voice is louder than another’s.
These roles provide fantastic learning and development opportunities. You will gain experience working with service users with a wide range of presentations and diagnoses. Additionally, you’ll develop your risk assessment skills, crisis management, assessment skills and delivery of brief psychological interventions.
You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clinicians who will support you to develop your skills and understanding of mental illness. We are eager for our staff to develop professionally and have previously supported people to do their non-medical prescribing training, AMHP training and to train in psychological therapies.
Main duties of the job As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will be working within our multidisciplinary team to contribute to our provision of dynamic solution-focused care. In the Crisis Team, we value the different perspectives brought by each of our colleagues. We work with service users experiencing an acute episode of mental illness, so it is vital that we work collaboratively to co-develop a plan to support our service users and their families.
You will be visiting service users in their own home to complete assessments. You will work with the MDT to plan and deliver interventions and work with other supporting services where appropriate.
Another significant part of the role is the management of the inpatient beds. We work on a rota to support the management of the inpatient beds. This is a critical role to ensure that the bed flow is supported and pro-actively managed and requires problem solving and decision-making skills.
Other benefits from joining us are:
Annual leave allowance 27 days plus bank holidays (depending on NHS service)
Full-time/Part-time or job share opportunities
Salary sacrifice scheme
Professional leadership programs for experienced nurses through NHS Academy
Stress awareness training
Mindfulness training
Counselling service
Detailed job description and main 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 refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Screen referrals 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 according 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.
Act as the patients and relatives advocate.
Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
Provide support, information and education to family members, carers and other professionals.
Liaise effectively with referrers and professionals within CPFT, promoting good working relationships and continuity of clinical care.
Supervise junior staff as required.
Act as a role model and clinically expert practitioner within the service.
Participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team, accountable for your practice, and work in partnership with other health care professionals, service users and others in the delivery of care.
Champion patients’ rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect.
Be conversant and proactive with Government legislation pertaining to the Mental Health Act, CPA, National Service Framework, NHS Plan and Clinical Governance.
Represent the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team at meetings.
Ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing.
Participate in the team’s support and training of students.
The post will include flexible working patterns over a 37.5 working hours per week to incorporate cover for 24 hours, 7-day service, including on call if required to meet the needs of the service users & carers.
Person specification Education / Qualifications
Registered Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker
Post qualification specialist mental health training
Experience
Experience of working in a community setting
Experience in leadership role
Experience of developing and providing teaching programmes
Experience of managing and training staff
Qualification in leadership
Ability to deliver mental health awareness and varied concise information
Skills & Abilities
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Effective organisational and time management skills
Clear evidence of effective & safe decision making and problem solving.
Ability to contribute to service development and ability to manage change
Ability to work under pressure
Ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment
Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act
Understanding of therapeutic skills for clinicians required to support patients in an acute phase of illness
Clear understanding of CRHTT practice and treatment objectives.
Commitment to and understanding of IT.
Knowledge of SOVA and Safeguarding policies
Mental Health Act Training
Any additional training relevant to CRHTT intervention
Physical Requirements
Able to cover shifts over a 24 hour period, 7 days a week
Ability to travel across a large geographical patch
Other
Committed to the empowerment of service users and carers promoting their involvement in service delivery
Provide and promote non-discriminatory care
Employer certification / accreditation badges You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sophie Price
Job title: Interim Team Manager
Email address: sophie.price2@cpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01233 219593
Get in touch if you have any questions about the role or would like to book some time to meet the team.
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