Registered professional - Band 7 - Crisis team

Job overview

1X Part Time (22.5 hrs) at St Michaels Hospital

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust to join our Warwickshire crisis teams

The post holder will be a key member of the leadership team, who will be responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership to support the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHTT)

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHTT) is an essential components of the crisis care pathway supporting patients in the community who are experiencing mental health crisis and/or require home treatment for early intervention to prevent further escalation of mental health challenges. CRHTT is a multi-disciplinary team who assess patients' mental health needs or a combination of mental, physical, psychological and social factors. CRHT explores alternatives to hospital admission ensuring the least restriction option giving priority to care delivery closer to home while optimising safe and effective care. CRHTT will embrace joint decision making with patients, family and carers and other services to support appropriate risk management planning.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be an experienced mental health professional with knowledge and skills in leadership, managing staff, and be a team player committed to innovation and service development. You will establish relationships and communication links with other urgent care and community mental health services.

This role requires the ability to multitask; incorporating service development, clinical management as well as reviewing service data quality and audits. Excellent communication, technical and organisational skills are essential. Some of the day to day tasks include:

• Gatekeeping training needs of the team
• Clinical supervision
• Handovers/MDTs
• Audits
• Oversight of complex cases in triage and the HTT caseload
• Fill in for service leads in their absence
• Clinical lead presence within the team
• monitor admissions and review the gatekeeping process
• contribute to service development
• support early discharge from hospital

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

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.