Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) provide multi-disciplinary assessment, treatment and care of individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems. They provide a service to individuals from 16 years of age up to 70 years of age with a diagnosed functional mental health problem.

Main duties of the job

Clinical role

• Undertake assessments of referrals/ admissions to the service
• Diagnose and formulate management plans in complex presentations.
• Provide management in treatment resistant and complex presentations
• Assessment and management of risk including of vulnerability, suicide risk, risks to health and safety and risk of harm to others.
• Preparation of Mental Health Review Tribunal and Managers' Hearings reports and attendance at subsequent hearings.
• Work in a collaborative way with multidisciplinary teams including external partners.
• Work in partnership with psychiatrists from partner providers such ...