An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Home Treatment Team. We are expanding our referral criteria to include older adults over the age of 65, with a functional or organic mental health crisis.
The team supports early discharge from inpatient wards.
The role will complement the High Intensity Workers in the Community Older peoples Mental Health Team and work together.
You will work flexibly on a duty rota covering Home Treatment seven days a week 9am‑7pm.
The post requires experience working with older adults and will also involve working with adults of working age.
To work within a multi‑disciplinary team to provide an effective professional and high‑quality clinical service that is service user and carer focused.
Roles and Responsibilities
- The role requires a clinician with skills to assess patients’ needs, provide structured evidence‑based treatments and develop treatment plans within a multidisciplinary framework, specifically relating to older people.
- To be responsible for the specialist assessment, provision and evaluation of planned clinical interventions and care of older people in the community, encouraging and developing family and community support whenever possible and appropriate.
- To use a person‑centred and evidence‑based approach to working with older people who may also have cognitive and physical health needs.
- To effectively apply a range of clinical skills, approaches and interventions pertinent to the person's needs, goals, environment and situation.
- To develop individualised treatment and safety plans for patients experiencing a deterioration or crisis in their mental health, including working with other health and social care services and staff to provide advice and input when necessary.
