Job summary
Full time, 1 Posts

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust to join our Coventry crisis team

The post holder will be a key member of the leadership team, who will be responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership to support the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHTT)

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHTT) is an essential components of the crisis care pathway supporting patients in the community who are experiencing mental health crisis and/or require home treatment for early intervention to prevent further escalation of mental health challenges. CRHTT is a multi-disciplinary team who assess patients' mental health needs or a combination of mental, physical, psychological and social factors. CRHT explores alternatives to hospital admission ensuring the least restriction option giving priority to care delivery closer to home while optimising safe and effective care. CRHTT will embrace joint decision making with patients, family and carers and other services to support appropriate risk management planning.

Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an experienced mental health professional with knowledge and skills in leadership, managing staff, and be a team player committed to innovation and service development. You will establish relationships and communication links with other urgent care and community mental health services.

This role requires the ability to multitask; incorporating service development, clinical management as well as reviewing service data quality and audits. Excellent communication, technical and organisational skills are essential. Some of the day to day tasks include:

• Gatekeeping Training to Clinical Staff
• Clinical supervision
• Handovers/MDTs
• Audits
• Oversight of complex cases in triage and the HTT caseload
• Fill in for service leads in their absence
• Clinical lead presence within the team
• monitor admissions and review the gatekeeping process
• contribute to service development
• support early discharge from hospital

About us
Candidate Information Pack Dec 24

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.

• 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 group

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
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification ie RMN, DipCOT
• Specialist expertise across a range of procedures, Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma Specialist clinical/managerial training
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience
Essential

• Substantial experience in Acute Mental health care setting
• Highly developed specialist knowledge gained within a similar environment over a significant period of time
• Significant experience of risk assessment and positive risk management
• Proven experience of managing a multi -disciplinary team

Other
Essential

• Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.