Home Treatment Older Adult Practitioner | Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 July 2026 |
| Location: | Rotherham, S60 2UD |
| Company: | Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8063909/376-RCG-0721-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Home Treatment Team. We are expanding our referral criteria to include older adults over the age of 65, with a functional or organic mental health crisis. Rotherham Home Intensive Treatment Service provides an alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing mental health crisis. The team also supports early discharge from the inpatient wards. The team is comprised of Registered Mental Health Nurses, a social worker, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Consultant Psychiatrists, a clinical psychologist, and Occupational Therapist, a support worker and a Team Manager. As this is a new function of the team, we would hope the successful applicant will contribute to the continuous development of the service and take a role in supporting colleagues.
The successful applicant will complement the High Intensity Workers in the Community Older peoples Mental Health Team and work together. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and motivated, with the ability to work well autonomously and within the wider multi-disciplinary team. The post will involve flexible duty rota covering Home Treatment seven days a week 9am-7pm.
Although the post requires experience working with Older Adults, there will also be the expectation that the successful applicant works with adults of working age.
To work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide an effective professionaland high-quality clinical service that is service user and carer focussed.
· The role requires a clinician with skills to assess patient’s needs, providestructured evidence-based treatments and to develop treatment plans withina multidisciplinary framework, specifically relating to older people
· To be responsible for the specialist assessment, provision and evaluation ofplanned clinical interventions and care of older people in the community,encouraging and developing family and community support wheneverpossible and appropriate.
· To use a person-centred and evidenced based approachesto working with older people who may also have cognitive and physical healthneeds.
· To effectively apply a range of clinical skills, approaches and interventionspertinentto the person's needs, goals, environment and situation
· To develop individualised treatment and safety plans for patient'sexperiencing a deterioration or crisis in their mental health, including workingwith other health and social care services and staff to provide advice andinput when necessary.
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://workwithrdash.co.uk/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications.
This advert closes on Friday 19 Jun 2026
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