Job overview

Bexley Home Treatment Team is a multidisciplinary team, providing a service over a 24-hour period, seven days a week to individuals in mental health crisis with the principal aim of providing an effective alternative to inpatient care. This involves intensive clinical work over short periods of time to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe early discharge. The team also carries out the following main functions:

• To provide 72 Hour follow–up for individuals who have self-harmed pre-admission and while on the inpatient patient when they have been discharged

•Assessment of urgent referrals from Primary Care Plus (PCP)

•Responding to calls via the Trust’s Crisis line

The Home treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the crisis services, Mental Health Liaison and Crisis Therapy Groups (CTG), Liaison team, in-patient, community mental health teams, local authorities and emergency services (GP).

The Home treatment team aim to operate within the standards set out by the Home Treatment Accreditation Service - QN-CRHTT Accreditation

 The postholder may be expected to transfer to another CRHTT temporarily or permanently where there is a clear clinical need to do so.

Main duties of the job

To co-ordinate the activities of the team on a shift basis, accepting and appropriately delegating all referrals for assessment.

To participate, and where required to do so, take a lead in agreed clinical and strategic projects associated with the provision of the assessment service.  This will include planning, implementing, reviewing and revising these projects as necessary in line with targets and NSF requirements.

To ensure that systems are in place for the collection of robust data relevant to the activity of the team.

To assist the team manager in identifying and dealing with potential areas/events/situations, which may have an impact on the financial expenditure of the team.

To ensure that staff within the team are aware of how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources.

To take responsibility for ensuring that staff within the team are deployed to meet prioritised needs.

To demonstrate the ability to analyse, respond and lead staff through difficult situations as appropriate.

To work with colleagues to develop and promote the service’s philosophy, framework of care delivery and strategic objectives, taking responsibility for specific areas of policy and strategy delivery as required by management.

To ensure that all complaints are addressed effectively according to trust policy.

To demonstrate an understanding of disciplinary and other Human Resource processes.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care