Crisis Pathway Mental Health Practitionerband 6

East London Nhs Foundation Trust; Bedford; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join the Crisis Pathway. You will provide nursing support to the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and within Kelvin Grove Crisis House, ensuring high-quality, recovery-focused care for adults in crisis.

You will assess mental state, plan care, and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, maintaining safeguarding awareness and professional standards throughout each contact.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with current registration and licence to practice (NMC).
• Experience with Crisis Pathway or CRHTT services is essential.
• Able to conduct telephone assessments and triage effectively.
• Demonstrated risk assessment and risk management skills.
• Ability to make balanced clinical judgments and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day clinical operations support for Kelvin Grove CRHTT and Crisis House.
• Oversee patient care, support clinical decision making and multidisciplinary reviews.
• Ensure safe discharge planning and post-discharge follow-up as appropriate.
• Provide clinical supervision and guidance to staff as needed.
• Support safeguarding processes and maintain professional standards.

Skills

Mental health nursing

Crisis Pathway experience

Telephone assessments

Risk assessment and management

Clinical decision making

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

Job overview

As a mental health practitioner for the Crisis Pathway, you will provide nursing support to both the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and within Kelvin Grove our purpose build Crisis House overseen by the CRHT.

The CRHTT operates a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week service for people aged 18 years and above who are experiencing a mental health crisis or requiring support as a alternative to the acute wards. The service will maintain focus on identifying, assessing and care planning for servicer users.

The post holder will be expected to be self-motivating with the ability to demonstrate accurate formulations of mental state, risk and need for people in a mental health crisis and take into account medical, social & cultural factors and referring on to other disciplines in the team or other agencies as appropriate within the given timeframes for the service. In particular you will be expected to assess and update risk on each contact and be fully aware of the safeguarding concerns.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide advice on mental health issues and participate in carrying out training programs for clinical teams on the management of a wide variety of mental health problems. The post holder will be expected to maintain the highest degree of professionalism and service at all times and will work in collaboration with the teams and organisations that come into contact with the service. To post holder to provide comprehensive support to oversee medication administration and titration support of high risk psychotics such as Clozapine.

The Mental Health Practitioner for Kelvin Grove will provide visible clinical oversight for the Crisis House, ensuring the safe, effective and recovery-focused delivery of care in partnership with Penrose.

Working closely with the Clinical lead nurse and Penrose team and wider multidisciplinary teams, the post holder will provide clinical oversight of the service, ensuring that residents receive high quality, person-centred care within a psychologically informed environment.

Working for our organisation

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The mental Health Practitioner will support the day-to-day clinical operations of Kelvin Grove by providing advice to guidance for both ELFT staff and Penrose staff. They will oversee day to day patient care, support clinical decision making, coordinate multidisciplinary reviews, provide clinical supervision and ensure effective discharge planning.

The post holder will work collaboratively with CRHT and community teams to ensure that residents receive appropriate assessment, treatment and follow-up throughout their stay.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of continual professional development
• Crisis Pathway experience
• Experience with conducting telephone assessments
• Post qualification experience in the field of adult and/or older adult
• Extensive and demonstrable experience of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programs of care, particularly in an acute care or older adult community setting
• Experience of suicide prevention work
• Must have a full UK driving license and business insurance on own vehicle

Desirable criteria

• CAMHS experience
• Older adults experience
• Mentorship sign off desired
• AMHP

Knowldge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge, expertise and practical experience of a full range of therapeutic nursing skills and approaches to people with mental health problems aged 18 years and above
• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge, understanding and practical experience of risk assessment and risk management
• Demonstrate excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrate an ability to make balanced clinical judgments and decisions
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
• Full UK driving Licence and access to a car for home treatment

Desirable criteria

• o Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of child and adult protection issues