Clinical Lead- Home Treatment Team

Job overview

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:

• Cornwall Foundation Trust
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

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 Hub and HTT 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.

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’.