MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

• To provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and will 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/ 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 be expected to undertake urgent front line assessments from GP’s 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 also 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 will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.