Main duties of the job
The Peterborough team covers both the Older Adults Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CHRTT-OP) and the Dementia Intensive Support Service (DIST). It forms part of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust's (CPFT) Older People's Mental Health Services and is based at The Cavell Centre. The service provides specialist, multidisciplinary assessment and intensive support for older adults, including people living with dementia, who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis, complex mental health needs or a deterioration in their wellbeing.

The team works closely with service users, families, carers and partner agencies to provide timely, coordinated care that supports people to remain safely at home wherever possible and helps reduce the need for hospital admission.

The focus of the service is to meet the needs of service users who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. All interventions provided by the service are short term and focused on the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of the service user and their carers and family during the period of the crisis.

Job responsibilities

• Be an active participant and leader of the team, contributing to and developing the operational and clinical function of the service (with a focus on the management and treatment of complex, high-risk patients).
• Ensure clinical audit of the service and implementation of appropriate assessment tools and outcome measures as an integrated part of the service and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
• Participate and engage with service development and wider Trust development initiatives.
• Provide evidence-based interventions for patients under their care, and support management of the service according to Trust policies and NICE standards.
• Liaise promptly with patients, carers, other psychiatry colleagues, general practitioners, and voluntary and statutory organisations to ensure high quality well-co-ordinated care.
• Complete administrative tasks associated with the care of patients in a timely manner. This will include recording clinical activity accurately, comprehensively, and promptly. It also includes ensuring that relevant KPIs, clustering and CQUIN requirements are fulfilled within their service.
• Share responsibility for and actively participate in the provision of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching with consultant colleagues in the Trust, and contribute to teaching, supervision, and training of staff of other disciplines.
• Provide clinical supervision to junior doctors as necessary.
• Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Approved Clinician / Mental Health Act Section 12 (2) approval and abide by professional codes of conduct.
• Comply with the Trust's agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the clinical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.
• Offer supervision to other members, both medical and non-medical.
• Ability to travel between Trust sites, patient contacts and community clinical work where required.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Full GMC registration and licence to practice
• MBBS or equivalent
• Approved Clinician Status or eligible to attend training
• Proven experience of good working relationships
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience of teaching and supervision of doctors in training
• Specialty Registration in specialty CCT in relevant specialty or within 6 months of attainment of Higher Training CCT at time of interview

Desirable

• MRCPsych (or equivalent)
• Publications in the field of psychiatry
• Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints

Details
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Closing date: 24 November 2026
Reference number: 310-MED-8303680-A

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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