Main area Mental health crisis resolution Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Shift work to cover opening hours of 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week including Bank Holidays) Job ref 310-OPAC-7796581-A
Site Beechcroft, Fulbourn Hospital Town Cambridge Salary £39,959 – £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/05/2026 23:59
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. The team offers 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 provide includes crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate earlier discharge from mental health hospital. Dementia Intensive Support offers a practical and psycho‑educational approach to care within patients’ homes and care homes.
Attributes we value
- A similar passion for working with older people.
- A desire to develop and enhance existing skills and knowledge.
- Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in a very busy team.
- Experience in carrying out clinical assessment including robust risk assessments.
- A strong team‑player with a great sense of humour.
- Motivated by a desire to make a difference. Able to contribute to team meetings and offer a lead role within the teams.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
- Work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment.
- Take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership 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 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.
- Provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short‑term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis.
- Act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs.
- Provide a crisis and home treatment service to patients, which incorporates dementia intensive support.
Detailed responsibilities and tasks
- 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.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
- Mental Health Nurse, Social Work or Occupational Therapy Qualification
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience
Experience
- Mental health care/treatment relevant to service.
- Working with people presenting with complex mental health needs.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Experience of developing service user and carer involvement.
- Experience relating to specialism.
- Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.
Skills & Abilities
- Assessing, formulating, and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress.
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning.
- Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis.
- Evidence of ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment.
- Sound knowledge of Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Act, Children’s Act, Equality Act 2010, Health and Safety Act and the Data protection Act.
- Models of care and treatment relevant to working with older people.
- Evidenced based clinical interventions relevant to the service.
- SystmOne.
- Relevant specialist clinical courses/training.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area, meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and will require a Disclosure and Barring Service submission.
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