Overview
This NHS role is currently open only to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. Applications are limited to current employees of the following organisations: Cornwall Foundation Trust; Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust; Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise and resources within our organisation and through our partnerships to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people’s recovery. The Home Treatment and Crisis service provision is a pivotal part of the acute care pathway for people with acute mental health difficulties, and we are investing substantially in them to improve care. Your experience and enthusiasm could be just what we need to expand our teams. This is an exciting opportunity to lead on a new service within Cornwall. The Mental Health Response Vehicle (MHRV) is in collaboration with SWAST and will be in line with the MHRV service that has successfully responded to mental health crisis in other areas of South West.
Responsibilities
* To provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in mental health crisis in the community.
* To provide expert clinical knowledge and prompt bio psychosocial assessment and treatment for the Crisis Hub and HTT patients with mental health or self-harm problems.
* To provide direct patient care to people in their home or Crisis Hub who are acutely mentally ill and who do not require immediate physical health care.
* To be responsible for the rapid response to referrals, face to face assessment and gate keeping of admissions to hospital and facilitating discharge from in-patient services once the risk to the individual or others has decreased.
* To undertake urgent front line assessments from GPs and other referrers such as police, ambulance and local authority and make clinical decisions around appropriate care pathways.
* To demonstrate excellent risk assessment skills whilst applying a holistic approach to assessing the health and social needs of people experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.
* To be responsible for referring and signposting to secondary mental health services, or alternative statutory or non-statutory agencies, and to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
About us
We are an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability. We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK. Over 4,000 people make up the Trust, including doctors, nurses, therapists, admin and support staff. We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases, with some staff working from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner. Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. We work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer and during other holidays lots of people visit the area, which increases the number of people who use our services.
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