Home Treatment Older Adult Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Home Treatment Team. We are expanding our referral criteria to include older adults over the age of 65, with a functional or organic mental health crisis. Rotherham Home Intensive Treatment Service provides an alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing mental health crisis. The team also supports early discharge from the inpatient wards. The team is comprised of Registered Mental Health Nurses, a social worker, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Consultant Psychiatrists, a clinical psychologist, and Occupational Therapist, a support worker and a Team Manager. As this is a new function of the team, we would hope the successful applicant will contribute to the continuous development of the service and take a role in supporting colleagues.

The successful applicant will complement the High Intensity Workers in the Community Older peoples Mental Health Team and work together. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and motivated, with the ability to work well autonomously and within the wider multi-disciplinary team. The post will involve flexible duty rota covering Home Treatment seven days a week 9am-7pm.

Although the post requires experience working with Older Adults, there will also be the expectation that the successful applicant works with adults of working age.

Main duties of the job

To work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide an effective professional and high-quality clinical service that is service user and carer focussed.

• The role requires a clinician with skills to assess patient’s needs, provide structured evidence-based treatments and to develop treatment plans within a multidisciplinary framework, specifically relating to older people
• To be responsible for the specialist assessment, provision and evaluation of planned clinical interventions and care of older people in the community, encouraging and developing family and community support whenever possible and appropriate.
• To use a person-centred and evidenced based approaches to working with older people who may also have cognitive and physical health needs.
• To effectively apply a range of clinical skills, approaches and interventions pertinent to the person's needs, goals, environment and situation
• To develop individualised treatment and safety plans for patient's experiencing a deterioration or crisis in their mental health, including working with other health and social care services and staff to provide advice and input when necessary.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications.