Job summary
Based at St Michael's Hospital, St Michael's Road, Warwick CV34 5QW
Permanent
Changes have been made within urgent care services in CWPT and there are exciting times of change within Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT)

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team in Warwickshire. Are you an experienced mental health clinician perhaps looking for development or new experiences within a different setting and have a desire to provide the highest quality care to our service users? Do you want to challenge yourself in a fast paced supportive environment where you can continue to grow and develop your skills? If so then we are currently looking for motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 practitioners, Nurses/Social Workers/Occupational Therapists to join our team based in Warwick. The team cover the very pleasant South Warwickshire area and are very welcoming and supportive who work collaboratively along side other agencies secondary care mental health teams, service users and their families to achieve the best outcomes possible.

Our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team form part of the community provision for secondary mental health care in Coventry and Warwickshire. We welcome applications from reliable individuals, who are passionate and committed to make a positive difference to our service users.

Main duties of the job
As the front door to secondary care mental health, the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) receives and triages all urgent referrals into services. The successful candidate will identify any needs using a holistic triaging tool and will refer on to the most appropriate service to meet the needs of the service user. This may include the CRHTT conducting an urgent assessment where urgent needs are identified.

The Home Treatment Team provide care and treatment to services users using the least restrictive principles to ensure recovery is achieved at home in order to avoid hospital admissions. This includes intensive home treatment, gatekeeping admissions to hospital and also facilitating early discharge from hospital inpatient units.

About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities
We are looking for registered professionals who are compassionate, motivated and approachable. In return you will be working within a supportiveteam with strong commitment to excellent customer care.

As the successful candidate you must have a professional qualification i.e., nursing, occupational therapist or social worker, with substantial post registration experience as a qualified professional of which you will have recent experience working with clients within a secondary care mental health setting.

You will be responsible for the assessment, risk assessment/s and formulation of crisis care plan/s and discharge preparation for our service users.

The team/s operate a 24 hour Rota system and you will be expected to work various shift patterns.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification i.e RMN, DipCOT
• Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures and Theory
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree / diploma
• Relevant training and experience specialist short courses e.g. STORM
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent written communication skills

Experience
Essential

• Substantial experience in Acute Mental health care setting
• Developed specialist knowledge gained within a similar environment over a considerable period of time
• Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management
• Proven experience of people

Personal Attributes
Essential

• Reliable
• Able to demonstrate a non judgemental and empathetic approach to service users
• Ability to work as part of a team and able to accept direction and leadership in carrying out duties
• Ability to motivate others
• Demonstrate ability to resolve conflict
• Demonstrate leadership qualities
• Enthusiastic
• Punctual
• Self Motivated
• Ability to work on own initative
• Engaging, open and honest
• Personal Resilience

Other
Essential

• Special requirements attached to the post - e.g. travelling, working in an agile manner, working unsocial hours, mobility etc.
• Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.