Job overview

The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older adults is a well-established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based in Fulbourn, Cambridge/ Peterborough and Fenland. The team offer intensive support and treatment at home, and in care homes, for older adults with mental health challenges, including the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The service we offer includes:

Crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from mental health hospital. Dementia Intensive Support which offers a practical and a psycho-educational approach to care within patients' homes and care homes.

We are strong, passionate, and cohesive team with a wealth of clinical experience and knowledge and are looking for a person to join us who will have the following attributes:

• A similar passion for working with older people.
• A desire to develop and enhance the teams existing skills and knowledge.
• Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in very busy team.
• Experience in carrying out Clinical assessment including robust risk assessments.
• A strong team-player
• Motivated by a desire to make a difference 
• Provide clinical structure within the functional pathway
• Contribute to team meetings and offer a lead role within the teams

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older people to provide a mental health service seven days a week, within a community setting, by providing a psychosocial assessment to those who present with a range of mental health problems.
• To work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment.
• To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership structure support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis.
• Provide support and guidance to the band 6 members of the team to aid in care planning and treatment options/pathways for functional patients within the crisis team service
• To provide assessment to those at risk of being admitted to hospital and provide care, support and treatment within a community setting or facilitate admission to hospital and promote rapid discharge.
• To provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
• To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs.
• To provide support for the team lead, assist with supervision and training within the team as required
• To provide a crisis and home treatment service to patients, which incorporates dementia intensive support.

Working for our organisation

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

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and 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. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk