Team Leader - Fulbourn, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
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Fulbourn, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Cambridge Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for Older Adults is a well established, dynamic, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based in Cambridge.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced mental health nurse, social worker or OT to lead the Team.


CRHTTOP is a 7 day a week service providing assessment and short-term treatment in the community for people who might otherwise need admission to an acute psychiatric unit.

You will have a passion for working with older adults with mental health needs (both functional need and memory loss), with a strong focus on delivering high quality care to service users, carers, their friends and family.


The post offers the unique opportunity to work in a leadership role, participating in the development of the service, staff supervision and line managing the mental health staff in the team.

But you will also retain clinical duties such as participating in complex assessments, diagnosis and treatment process. You will work closely with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary team.


To undertake a range of management responsibilities, including but not limited to; recruitment and selection processes, performance management, appraisal and sickness absence management and staff development.


To work in partnership with the consultant and dementia clinical lead and ensure that expert leadership is demonstrated which meets the holistic needs of older adults within an acute mental health division.


To provide high visibility leadership, diving forward team developments by demonstrating as exemplar of expert practice, thereby, energising and motivating staff to continually deliver person centred care of the highest quality.


To ensure that the voice of patients and their families/carers is listened to and suggestions for changes to practice are respected and where necessary, escalated to senior decision makers within the organisation.

Thereby embedding a you said, we did, ethos within the team.

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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.


Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.

These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

  • Work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for Older People (CRHTTOP), providing clinical leadership on the matters relating to mental health interventions and line manage the mental health staff.
  • Clinically supervise mental health practitioners within the CRHTTOP to ensure that there is excellent communication and planning for mental health interventions across the team.
  • Ensure systems are in place to receive and prioritise mental health referrals to the team and delegation to staff members with the level of skill and competence required to meet patient need.
  • Lead on the assessment and care planning/ interventions for patients whose needs may frequently be complex and multifactorial in nature, collaborating with the integrated team, Advanced Practitioners/ medical colleagues, social services and other stakeholders involved in the transfer of care.
  • Engage proactively with key stakeholders (including for example General Practitioners, Advanced Practitioners, the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, specialist services, Social Services, independent/ private sector providers, from within and beyond the organisation) to identify patients who require supportive intervention and case management to prevent avoidable hospital admission and enable those individuals to remain in their own home environment.
  • Negotiate the timely transfer home for those patients whose presentation does not require them to remain within or transfer to the acute/community hospital environment.
  • Work in collaboration with the integrated neighbourhood team to provide information, prepare patients and their families/ carers for changes in the patients' condition and actively encourage and support decision making and choice for end of life care including the use of fast track and CHC processes.
  • Prioritise and manage own workload to ensure responsive care/interventions by staff with the level of skill and competence to meet patient need and provide advice and support to team members regarding the care/ management plan.
  • Undertake assessments and reviews for appropriate patients; being responsible for ensuring case manage
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