Home Treatment Practitioner

NHS; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Doncaster is seeking a Home Treatment Practitioner to provide intensive mental health support in the community. This role is crucial in preventing hospital admissions by delivering high-quality patient-centered care. Candidates should have a background as a Registered Mental Health Nurse and relevant training. This position offers a flexible schedule and requires working a combination of long shifts.

Qualifications

• Ability to assess and provide interventions for those who self-harm and understand the link to suicidal intent.
• Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities and voluntary sector.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly skilled nursing care, including full mental health assessment, care planning, and care delivery.
• Triage all mental health referrals into the team to determine the priority for service response.
• Facilitate early discharge from inpatient wards where clinically indicated.

Skills

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Risk assessment training

Excellent knowledge of mental illness

Experience in managing individuals with substance misuse

Suicide prevention training

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Go back Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

Home Treatment Practitioner

The closing date is 12 October 2025

37.5 hours - 08:00 to 21:30 365 days a year

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 nurse to join Doncaster intensive Home Treatment Team. We provide short-term intensive support in the community to individuals with acute mental health needs to prevent hospital admission.

We provide a service between 08.00 and 21.30 7 days per week and staff are expected to work shift patterns to cover this. Most team members work 3 long shifts, which helps promote a good work life balance.

The team works in partnership with third sector and peer organisations to deliver person centred crisis care, therefore transparency and openness is vital.

Are you a passionate mental health nurse who wants to make a real difference to individuals and their families? Do you want to play an essential part in a person's recovery journey? If so, working with Home Treatment Team could be for you!

For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Sue Smith-Team Manager, 03000 211286.

Main duties of the job

To provide a clinical service that is patient focussed, accessible and responsive on a 7-day a week basis.

To triage all mental health referrals into the Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.

To provide and deliver highly skilled nursing care, including full mental health assessment, care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.

To recommend and refer, where treatment is indicated, to the most appropriate team/service.

To work collaboratively with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service.

To facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated.

To deliver home based treatment interventions for all patients, ensuring best practice is implemented.

About us

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 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:

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

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Education/skills

• Registered Mental Health Nurse. Risk assessment training
• Mental health care/treatment relevant to service Involving service users and carers in care delivery
• Ability to risk assess and co-produce risk management and contingency planning
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Experience of working across service boundaries with local authorities, voluntary sector and peer support services
• Excellent knowledge of mental illness, signs and symptoms
• Knowledge of working with trauma and delivering Trauma informed interventions.
• Assess and provide interventions for those who Self harm, understand the link to suicidal intent.
• Experience in managing individuals with substance misuse.
• Suicide prevention training
• Care Act

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT