Crisis Practitioner - Nurse

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Houghton Regis; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated professional to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). The role focuses on rapid assessment and home-based treatment for adults in mental health crisis, with emphasis on accurate risk formulation and safeguarding.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, assess referrals, provide gatekeeping, and support discharge planning. The post requires professional collaboration across teams and agencies to promote recovery.

Qualifications

• Assess and manage risk for patients in crisis using baseline physical and mental state measures.
• Provide psycho-social interventions to support recovery and reduce readmission.
• Deliver training to clinical teams on managing mental health crises and related care.

Responsibilities

• Work within a multidisciplinary service to assess referrals from GPs, CMHTs, and acute wards.
• Be part of the home treatment or assessment team within the Crisis Team.
• Provide gatekeeping and feedback based on CRHTT criteria.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments including physical health considerations.
• Offer expert advice on management and interventions to minimise risk and promote recovery.
• Support acute hospital wards and facilitate safe discharge or leave to reduce length of stay.
• Utilise psycho-social methods to improve mental health outcomes for patients.
• Act as shift co-ordinator, assigning tasks for the day.
• Adhere to lone worker policies and supervise medication administration when required.

Skills

Risk assessment

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Psycho-social interventions

Clinical training delivery

Gatekeeping

Job description

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 to be discharged from the acute wards. The service will maintain focus on identifying, assessing and care planning for service 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.

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.

Main duties of the job

• To work within a multidisciplinary service, assessing referrals from various sources including GPs, CMHT's and the acute admission wards and providing home treatment for patients accepted on to our caseload.
• To be a part of the assessment or the home treatment team within the Crisis Team.
• To provide Gatekeeping and feedback based on the CRHTT criteria.
• To provide comprehensive risk assessments incorporating baseline physical assessments.
• Provide expert advice on the management, treatment interventions and diagnosis of patients experiencing a mental health crisis with the aim of minimising risks, ensuring safe care and promote recovery.
• Provide support to acute hospital wards and facilitate early discharge of patients or support them while on leave and reduce length of stay for patients in hospital.
• To use a range of psycho-social interventions to improve mental health outcomes for patients
• To reduce re-admissions to the acute hospitals by facilitating client education and service user led recovery and independence as well as longer term support.
• To act on a regular basis as a shift co-ordinator assigning colleagues work for the day.
• Be aware of and adhere to our lone worker policy.
• When required supervise and facilitate the administration of medication.

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.