Clinical Lead Functional Mental Health

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

• 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

• Screen referral to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely
• Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
• Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
• Undertake risk management; practising safely and accordingly to individual service user needs.
• Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
• Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients.
• Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner.
• Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
• Supervision and discussion on patient care planning
• Support the team lead in the day to day management of the team
• DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse or equivalent AHP or Social work qualification.
• NMC or HCPC registered
• Demonstrate continuous professional development within the relevant fields
• Non – Medical Prescriber qualification or working towards

• Management qualification
• Enhanced clinical skills qualification in relevant field.

Experience

• Proven record of advanced experience and achievement in mental health assessment, care of adults and/ or older people
• Evidence of effective leadership management in multi-disciplinary teams
• Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of older adults

• Have lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Experience of people management

Skills & Abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• Experience of clinical supervision and leadership
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good working relationships with a wide range of people.
• Demonstrates understanding of legislation relating to work with Older People.

• Previous Crisis home treatment team experience
• Experience of working within an emergency mental health setting

Knowledge & Understanding

• Clear understanding of psychotropic medication and monitoring the effects and potential side effects
• Understands and adheres to the principles of confidentiality.
• Able to utilise electronic patient records systmone.

• HR systems and processes

Physical Requirements

• Demonstrates empathy for and awareness of concerns of others.
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check and takes constructive action and calms others down
• Can demonstrate flexibility of approach

Other

• Positive approach to older people
• Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
• Ability to travel across the county – sometimes at short notice, and regularly within catchment area.
• Flexibility to work over five days per week, to support the delivery of a 12 hours service if the need arises.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people’s mental health services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.