Crisis and Home Treatment Team Clinician

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

A B6 post has recently become available with
The Hereford Crisis and Home Treatment Team.

The purpose of the Crisis and Home treatment
Team is evolving we currently provide crisis assessment and home treatment to
patients in acute mental health crisis in the least restrictive environment.
CAHTT also work closely with inpatient services to facilitate early planned
discharge.

The Crisis & Home Treatment Team manage
the Hatton Suite for those detained on a S136 of the MHA; alongside this we also
offer both adult and CYP overnight Liaison service to Wye Valley Trust and
MSEs for those in Custody where a MH need has been identified.

The role includes assessment and home treatment
in locations to include the patients home within the Community and/or
treatment rooms based at the Stonebow Unit.

Crisis & Home Treatment Team operate a 24
hour service 7 days per week. We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic
individual who is able to work 37.5 hours per week, over 3/4 days/nights (12
hour shifts)

If you are interested and would like to
discuss the position informally and believe this may be the right team for you,
please do not hesitate to get in touch with the recruiting manager.

Main duties of the job

It’s a
little unpredictable, as you can be called at any time to a crisis situation,
we discuss referrals each morning and three times weekly we review our caseload
with our consultant psychiatrist.

We
complete comprehensive risk assessments for every patient, these can be
completed independently although sometimes we discuss more complex patients as
a Multi-disciplinary team.

We
liaise with families and carers, GPs, community mental health teams, social
care teams, community nurses, physiotherapists and voluntary organisations, and
anyone who is necessary to maximise recovery.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role.

Qualifications

Essential

  • RMN/Social Worker.
  • Evidence of post qualification training / studies to post graduate diploma level.
  • Required to train to MAPA Level 1.
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Good working knowledge of Mental Health Act legislation and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
  • Clinical Governance, Risk Assessment and Adult/Child Protection Legislation.

Experience

Essential

  • Three years post-registration experience, with one year at a senior level.
  • Demonstrate clinical leadership in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
  • Experience working with severe and enduring mental illness.

Desirable

  • Experience of assessing people who deliberately self-harm and those diagnosed with personality disorder.
  • Experience of working with people who engage in substance misuse.
  • Experience of working with/assessing people with cognitive impairment and/or functional mental illness.
  • Working with user and carer groups.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 30 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.