Home Intensive Treatment Clinician

Haringey GP Federation; Selby; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS mental health service is seeking a Home Intensive Treatment Clinician to join their team in Selby. This role involves providing crisis intervention and home treatment to patients, working collaboratively with service users and their families. Ideal candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in working with individuals with mental health issues. The position offers a salary range of £31,049 to £37,796 per annum, promoting a supportive multi-disciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification required and appropriate current professional registration.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Provide telephone triage & support service to service users and carers.
• Work as a member of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
• Manage a defined caseload of clients experiencing an acute mental health episode.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Empathy

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Current professional registration

Job description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Home Intensive Treatment Clinician

The closing date is 31 December 2025

If you are energetic, motivated to try innovative ways of working within a welcoming and friendly multi-disciplinary team and have clinical skills that encompass urgent mental health and home treatment interventions then please consider applying.

The Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team is looking for a Registered Mental Health Clinicians to join our team which provides a responsive assessment and home treatment service to those experiencing an acute mental health crisis in the community.

As a Home Based Treatment Clinician you will be expected to work collaboratively with Service Users, Carers and other professionals, offering interventions as an alternative to hospital admission as the primary element of your role.

Main duties of the job

Providing a telephone triage & support service to service users and carers who self‑refer via the All Age Crisis Line and supporting service users who are awaiting Mental Health Act Assessment in the Health Based Place of Safety.

To work as a member of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, providing intensive home treatment to patients and support for their families in accordance with Trust and Crisis Teams Policies and Procedures.

To manage a defined caseload of clients experiencing an acute mental health episode, using evidence based, client centred, hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention orientated principles and practice.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care — our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification required and appropriate current professional registration
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
• MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within an agreed timescale.

Experience

• Working with people with mental ill-health
• Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation
• Working in a community
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Working in partnership with other agencies

Knowledge

• Evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field
• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g., Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
• Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
• Understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
• Clinical Governance and Clinical Supervision
• Awareness of psychological models of care and treatment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year (pro rata), per annum