Crisis & Home Treatment Clinician

NHS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Crisis & Home Treatment Clinician at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. The role involves providing crisis assessment and treatment to patients in acute mental health crises, working as part of a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be supported through induction and preceptorship, with flexible working options and generous leave entitlements.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 with long service

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of supportive staff networks

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable post-qualification experience in acute mental health.
• Good working knowledge of Mental Health Act legislation.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis assessment and home treatment for patients.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments.
• Liaise with families, GPs, and community teams.

Skills

Communication

Risk Assessment

Mental Health Knowledge

Education

Registered Mental Nurse

Job description

Go back Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Crisis & Home Treatment Clinician

The closing date is 08 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for anexisting or newly qualified band 5 to obtain a role in the Crisis and HomeTreatment Team. We will support the successful candidate through induction andcompletion of preceptorship.

Crisis and Home treatment Team provide crisisassessment and home treatment to patients in acute mental health crisis in theleast restrictive environment. CAHTT also work closely with inpatient servicesto facilitate early planned discharge.

The Crisis & Home Treatment Team alsomanage the Hatton Suite for those detained on a S136 of the MHA; and alongsidethis we offer an overnight Liaison service to Wye Valley Trust.

The role includes assessment and hometreatment in locations to include the patients home within the Communityand/or treatment rooms based at the Stonebow Unit.

Crisis & Home Treatment Team operate a 24hour service 7 days per week. We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiasticindividual who is able to work 37.5 hours per week, over 3/4 days/nights (12hour shifts)

If you are interested and would like todiscuss the position informally and believe this may be the right team for you,please do not hesitate to get in touch with the recruiting manager.

Main duties of the job

It's alittle unpredictable, as you can be called at any time to a crisis situation,we discuss referrals each morning and three times weekly we review our caseloadwithin our MDT.

Wecomplete comprehensive risk assessments for every patient, these can becompleted independently although sometimes we discuss more complex patients asa Multi-disciplinary team.

Weliaise with families and carers, GPs, community mental health teams, socialcare teams, community nurses, physiotherapists and voluntary organisations, andanyone who is necessary to maximise recovery.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

Operate as part of amultidisciplinary team providing Crisis & Home Treatment for people aged 17and over.

Use their initiative and takeresponsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the servicethey provide to patients.

Proactively engage in formaland informal education for partnership agencies as well as appropriatestudents.

Actively and creatively engagepatients and carers encouraging them to make appropriate use of the mentalhealth and voluntary services available as part of a process of recovery andcrisis management.

Undertake full psycho-socialassessments with those in need of such. Ensuring thorough, precise and timelydocumentation and dissemination of information in line with Trust policy andprocedure.

For full details of the dutiesand criteria for the role please refer to the job description and personspecification attached.

Forfull details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the jobdescription and person specification attached

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Good working knowledge of Mental Health Act legislation and Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Clinical Governance, Risk Assessment and Adult/Child Protection Legislation

Experience

• Demonstrable post- qualification experience in acute mental health
• Undertaking multi-disciplinary assessments
• Undertaking mental state and self-harm assessments
• Assessing and managing risk
• Working within the Care Co-ordination framework
• Experience of assessing people who deliberately self-harm and those diagnosed with personality disorder
• Experience of working with people who engage in substance misuse
• Experience of working with/assessing people with cognitive impairment and/or functional mental illness
• Working with user and carer groups

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Nurse
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role

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.

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