Clinical Practice Lead

The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team is a pivotal, county-wide service whose main focus is to offeran alternative to inpatient admission and provide intensive treatment as required within the community. The service operates within locality-based leadership teams to ensure effective gatekeeping for all service users referred for hospital admission. Outreach is at the heart of the service, with most assessments taking place in non-hospital environments.

We are recuiting a Clinical Practice Lead for the Torbay CRHTT.

As an active member of the integrated multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will contribute to a24-hour community-based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service, available across the county as an alternative to hospital admission. The role involves delivering rapid assessments and planning effective, evidence-based home treatment in collaboration with service users, carers, and professionals fromboth established services and locality teams.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards and will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from the service do so in line with Trust strategic objectives. They will also be responsible for ensuring the clinical practice aligns with CQC key Lines of enquiry and national standards for CRHT. They will form part of the Teams leadership structure and provide evidenced based professional support and advice to the multi-disciplinary team.

• Coordinate and deliver high-quality mental health services
• Ensure robust shift planning and effective leadership, maintaining consistent service provision and team coverage.
• Develop, implement, and oversee comprehensive treatment plans for clients.
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and support to colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team.
• Utilise an approved UK triage tool to rigorously assess the urgency and complexity of each referral, ensuring accurate prioritisation and allocation of resources.
• Conduct timely clinical assessments within 4 hours for urgent referrals and 24 hours for routine casesto provide prompt access to care and interventions.
• Assess, manage, and formulate clinical risk with each client on the caseload.
• Offer crisis resolution as an alternative to hospital admission, available 24/7.
• Act as the gatekeeper for inpatient hospital beds.
• Conduct in-person follow-up after hospital discharge to ensure ongoing support and continuity of care.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role

• Experience of working with people presenting in mental health crisis in both…