Main area: Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24 hours rotation - 7 days per week - 12 hour shifts)
Job ref: 110-NMR524-1124
Employer: Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Prince Charles Hospital
Town: Merthyr Tydfil
Salary: £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/11/2024 23:59
Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Practitioner (CRHTT)
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Job overview
The successful applicant's role will be to support the provision of health care to the people of Merthyr and Cynon, contributing to a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week provision of a Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service for clients experiencing a mental health crisis. This will involve both lone and joint assessments of people’s mental health and working with people in their own home for clients identified as suitable for home treatment for their acute mental health problem.
The role requires multi-level liaison, including with A&E, Crisis teams in RGH, Primary Care, Community Mental Health Teams, the police, Welsh Ambulance Service and other specialist services. The successful applicant will have excellent skills in risk assessment and management, communication, team working and networking and will have robust coping skills in decision making and autonomous working. The successful applicant will also have an experienced working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and will be IT literate.
Main duties of the job
* To take responsibility for crisis assessments and a home treatment caseload providing comprehensive assessment, care and treatment to clients in both situations.
* Foster robust working relationships with other secondary mental health services and all partners, in particular Local Authority and Primary Care.
* Contribute to the continuing improvement and development of crisis resolution home treatment services.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family, providing primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of WARRN risk assessments and formulation
* Previous experience in CRHTT
Qualifications
* RMHN
* DBT Trained
* Non Medical Prescriber
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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