Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership of the Cambridge locality teams.

You will be joining a service supporting working-age adults who have moderate to severe affective and psychotic disorders. The team offers care-coordination, a daily duty service, psychiatric assessments, medication reviews, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, family work & a wide variety of therapeutic interventions.

We actively develop our staff in their ability to deliver specific interventions. We are continually developing the service, considering what interventions may be helpful for our service users and evaluating the support we already provide. Recovery principles are embedded at the core of the locality teams & we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.

Main duties of the job

You will be fully involved in ensuring the service delivers coordinated care to a specified caseload , delivery of a daily duty service,  supporting effective clinical  risk management, and care planning, providing support to clinicians,  managing complex cases, guidance on discharge and supporting clinical  throughput in the team , promoting positive interfaces with other teams , and ensuring  team delivery of a wide variety of therapeutic interventions.

You will be instrumental in delivering  supervision and fostering a supportive work environment for all staff with a particular focus on staff new into role. 

You will also be involved in  ensuring that the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.