Community Nurse Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team Band 6

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Band 6 Nurse to join their Home Treatment Team. This role involves providing crucial clinical care to individuals in mental health crises, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will possess strong assessment and crisis intervention skills, ensuring high-quality support for service users. The position offers a full-time, fixed-term contract with opportunities for professional development and team leadership. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health care, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a compassionate and innovative service.

Qualifications

• Must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• Experience as a Band 5 Nurse in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care to service users in crisis.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and manage clinical risk.
• Supervise junior staff and participate in team development.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Risk Assessment

Time Management

Team Collaboration

Crisis Intervention

Education

Registered Nurse – Mental Health

Tools

Computer Technology

Job description

Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

About

Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated health and social care Trust. We are the main provider of a wide range of specialist health & social care services to individuals and their carers or families in Sheffield. The Trust has an excellent reputation for providing high quality services to people within our care. Our vision is that people who use our services will achieve their full potential, living fulfilled lives in the community. We provide:

• Mental health services for adults and older people
• Services for people with learning disabilities
• Services for people with drug and alcohol problems
• A wide range of other specialist services, such as for people accessing maternal mental health, gender dysphoria services and psychology for people with physical health problems.

We also provide a full range of services at sites where people live. These services aim to provide care and treatment to individuals and their families and help people to maintain their independence and continue with their day-to-day lives as far as possible. We provide a range of in-patient and residential services for individuals who cannot be appropriately helped in a community-based setting. Within our learning disability services we work closely with a large number of supported living settings/residential care homes in partnership with housing associations. Many of the people we help are seen in their own homes by members of staff, and some people attend our clinics to see nurses, social workers, therapists or doctors. We provide treatment, care and help on an individual or group basis where support and guidance is provided. We also work alongside GPs and other staff in local health centres, or with staff from other organisations often in the voluntary sector. We often see people for short periods of time, providing advice and treatment which helps resolve the person’s problems. For people with more serious longer term difficulties we will support them and work with them for a number of years. As a Foundation Trust we work in partnership with Sheffield City Council and have formal agreements with them, called a section 75 agreement, to provide a range of social care services on the Council’s behalf. Through these arrangements, we have made good progress in developing ‘integrated’ services for the people of Sheffield - an important goal that is shared by ourselves and the City Council. We have placed great importance on working with other organisations to deliver integrated health and social care services to local people. In doing this we have aimed to reflect and provide for the diverse needs of the people and communities of Sheffield.

We have core values which are at the heart of all our daily activities, these values are:

• Working together for our service users
• Respect and kindness
• Everyone counts
• Commitment to quality
• Improving lives

Key details

Location

Site: Crisis Hub, Longley Centre

Address: Herries Road

Town: Sheffield

Postcode: S5 7AU

Major / Minor Region: South Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 12 months (fixed term)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (this role is shift patterns over a 24 hour period)

Salary

Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 6)

Job overview

The Home Treatment Team (HTT) provides a 7 day a week service, between the hours of 8am and 10pm, whose key responsibilities are around the assessing and delivery of care for people who are in crisis with their mental health. The team is multi-disciplinary and has a strong ethos of team working and team support, in order to deliver high quality care. The post holder will work on a shift basis of 4 days per week over a 7 day period. The HTT works closely within the crisis network in ensuring that good liaison and joint working with other crisis provision teams are maximized.

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The band 6 nurse will work within the Home Treatment Team. The post is to provide clinical care to Service Users who are in Crisis. The HTT is multidisciplinary and will involve working alongside other clinical professionals as well as the Crisis Network and other Community Mental Health Teams. As a band 6 the role will involve supervision of junior staff and participating in team development.

You will be involved in the assessment of Service Users in Crisis, leading on crisis assessments and decision making with onward referring to appropriate teams.

Planning interventions, delivering a variety of Acute Crisis interventions, whilst reviewing care and planning for discharge.

Working as shift coordinator.

Working within the MDT to maintain care and standards.

Supporting the ongoing development of the team with all team members.

Supervision of junior Staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Principal Duties

Clinical

• Triage and determine urgency of new referrals to the service
• Carry out comprehensive assessments of an individual’s health and social care needs in a variety of settings and agree the most appropriate course of action
• To assess, evaluate and manage clinical risk
• To formulate a plan of care based on identified need
• Deliver evidence based crisis interventions as appropriate
• Review effectiveness of care plan at regular intervals
• To work collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies
• To coordinate the clinic work of a day by day basis
• To maintain computer held care records in an accurate and timely fashion
• Undertake all work in a culturally sensitive manner
• Act in accordance with the Care Programme Approach, Care Management System, Acute and Schedule Care Pathways as appropriate.
• Develop effective working relationships with inpatient, community and voluntary organisations.

Supervision

• Regularly review own clinical work with supervisor to promote efficacy and contribute to the overall management of the HTT
• Deliver supervision and facilitate annual PDR with more junior members of staff
• Participate in own PDR process, identifying training and development needs, and pursuing relevant actions to maintain and improve level of competence and effective contribution

Education and Training

• Act as mentor to learners, keep up to date with relevant course and curriculum developments, and maintain ‘sign off’ status
• Participate in training relevant to role, including training needs for the team.
• Promote insight and understanding of mental health issues to service users, carers, and other agencies
• Contribute to audit, research and evaluation as appropriate

Service Development

• Contribute to service development and review of development within the team.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and in discussion with the manager the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the Banding of the post. The job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the postholder.

The post holder should be comfortable in the use of computer technology, have basic keyboard skills and have the ability to use email.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse – Mental Health
• Experience of working as a Band 5 Nurse in a MDT setting
• Evidence of continued professional development

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge and understanding of Care Programme Approach & Care Management
• Knowledge and understanding of appropriate therapeutic approaches
• Knowledge and understanding of PDR and supervision processes as a supervisee
• Demonstrable risk assessment and risk management skills
• Demonstrable caseload and time management skills
• Ability to work autonomously as well as a co-operative and effective member of the multi-disciplinary team with an ability to communicate at all levels
• Ability to assess (under supervision) plan and evaluate care

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of mentoring others

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Katy Hughes

Job title: Senior Practitioner/Clinical Manager

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 0114 226 2487