Job summary
- Main area
- Initial Response Service
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 201-24-454
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Longreach Hospital
- Town
- Redruth
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum / Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
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Clinical Lead HTT / Crisis Hub/Mental Health Response Vehicle
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
Would you like to live in Cornwall? A county of outstanding natural beauty with its endless rugged coastlines, beautiful countryside and unbeatable beaches. Attracting millions of visitors each year, this could be your chance to move here permanently and make a difference to our community.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise and resources within our organisation and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people's recovery. Our Home Treatment and Crisis service provision is a pivotal part of the acute care pathway for people with acute mental health difficulties, and we are investing substantially in them to improve care. Your experience and enthusiasm could be just what we need to expand our teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead on a new service within Cornwall. The Mental Health Response Vehicle (MHRV) is in collaboration with SWAST and will be inline with MHRV service that has successfully responded to mental health crisis in other areas of South West.
Main duties of the job
- To provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and will be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in mental health crisis in the community.
- To provide expert clinical knowledge and prompt bio psychosocial assessment and treatment for the Crisis Hubs, HTT and SPOA patients with mental health or self- harm problems.
- To provide direct patient care to people in their home/ Crisis Hub who are acutely mentally ill and who do not require immediate physical health care.
- To be responsible for the rapid response to referrals, face to face assessment and gate keeping of admissions to hospital and facilitating discharge from in-patient services once the risk to the individual or others has decreased.
- To be expected to undertake urgent front line assessments from GP’s and other referrers such as police, ambulance and local authority and make clinical decisions around appropriate care pathways.
- To demonstrate excellent risk assessment skills whilst also applying a holistic approach to assessing the health and social needs of people experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.
- To be responsible for referring and signposting to secondary mental health services, or alternative statutory or non-statutory agencies, and will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live her. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration NMC/HCPC/SWEngland
- Substantial Home Treatment Team Crisis resolution Practitioner experience and Working knowledge of crisis assessment and intervention
- Extension experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
Desirable criteria
- Management / Leadership qualifications or current study
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive Risk Assessment Skills
- Confident in their abilities to make rapid and effective decision
- Ability to lead, motivate and supervise a team of staff demonstrating the highest clinical standards
- Proven interpersonal, communication and supervision skills
Knowledge and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly and independently in pressured clinical environments
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles and knowledge base underpinning crisis assessment and intervention
- Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and other mental health legislation
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Hodder
- Job title
- Mental Health Helpline Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01209 318940
- Additional information
Sophie Tomlinson Home Treatment Team Manager (West ), 01209 881818
Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction
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