Deputy Team Manager - Chiltern CRHTT

Job overview

Are you looking for an engaging and dynamic opportunity to join the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team in Buckinghamshire?

As a pivotal component of the Urgent Care Pathway, we are dedicated to fulfilling the NHS Ten-Year Plan. Our team is at the forefront of providing Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Services across Buckinghamshire, offering highly intensive interventions at home to support our most vulnerable patients and their families in the least restrictive setting possible.

In this role, you will lead the development of recovery-focused interventions, provide expertise and training, and coordinate the work of our dedicated team. Additionally, you will maintain close collaboration with colleagues and third sector services to ensure a comprehensive crisis response for all patients on our caseload.

Currently, our team is working towards accreditation with the HTAS QN-CRHTT. The successful candidate will be instrumental in advancing our mission to deliver exceptional care.

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• Provide first-line clinical leadership and operational management to the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), ensuring safe delivery of assessments, care planning, and crisis interventions tailored to individual patient needs.
• Undertake complex assessments, including risk assessments, and develop evidence-based care plans in partnership with patients and carers, ensuring effective communication using both verbal and non-verbal tools.
• Deliver and evaluate a range of therapeutic interventions as outlined in care plans, providing guidance and support to team members to achieve desired outcomes.
• Participate in and provide clinical, professional, and leadership, contributing to the Trust’s appraisal process and supporting the professional development of team members.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive discharge plans, contingency plans, and relapse signatures in collaboration with patients and relevant parties, ensuring continuity and integration of care across multidisciplinary teams.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups