Nurse Practitioner

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Stoke-on-Trent seeks an experienced Nurse Practitioner to lead clinical efforts within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The role requires advanced mental health assessments and a commitment to service improvement. Applicants must be a Registered Nurse Mental Health with relevant qualifications. The position offers opportunities for professional development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working

Wellness opportunities

Commitment to sustainability

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Mental Health with current NMC registration.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification.
• Evidence of continuing personal learning and development.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership and autonomous decision making.
• Undertake comprehensive and advanced mental health assessments.
• Contribute to ongoing service development and clinical governance activities.
• Lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit.

Job description

Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 03 December 2025

Base: Crisis Care Centre, Harplands Hospital

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) during a period of positive change and ongoing service development.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated practitioner to contribute advanced clinical expertise, leadership, and decision making to our multi‑disciplinary team. This substantive Band 7 post will play a key role in delivering safe, responsive, and person‑centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises in the community.

About the Role

Working as part of an established MDT, the post holder will:

• Provide senior clinical leadership and autonomous decision making in the management of acutely unwell service users in community settings.
• Undertake comprehensive and advanced mental health assessments, including formulation and complex risk management.
• Lead on admission avoidance and facilitate early discharge, supporting reduction in inpatient pressures.
• Prescribe and manage treatment plans within their scope of practice and work collaboratively with medical colleagues where required.
• Liaise effectively with inpatient wards, community services, and partner agencies to ensure continuity of care.
• Contribute to ongoing service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance activities.

For an informal discussion, please contact Leanne Norman, Operational Team Manager ([e-mail]).

Main duties of the job

The Crisis Care Centre is an essential component of the urgent care pathway and provides an all‑age single point of access to mental health services in North Staffordshire, whilst also offering a 24‑hour, seven‑day crisis service with the additional offer of intensive home treatment as an alternative to an acute inpatient admission. The Crisis Care Centre, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, will be expanding this offer to support individuals in crisis by receiving referrals via NHS 111, in addition to the dedicated line for ambulance, police, GP’s and other professionals requiring an urgent mental health response.

The post holder will support the operational team manager in delivering a high‑quality mental health service for individuals presenting in crisis with acute mental health needs in North Staffordshire. They will support leadership and development of the service to improve practice and work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries, implementing and evaluating evidence‑based standards, guidelines and policies. The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team and will be expected to work autonomously within a multi‑disciplinary framework, providing training and staff development, specialist assessment, clinical support and time‑limited interventions to service users. The post holder will act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstrate high levels of decision making and clinical judgement.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first “carbon net zero” national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under‑represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Job responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
• Lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators and outcomes.
• Demonstrate highly developed mental health nursing skills.
• Provide consultancy both within the Trust and externally for partner organisations as an adult mental health professional expert.
• Work with the directorate senior team, take a lead in monitoring performance against the Department of Health, CQC and NICE mandatory requirements and regulations.
• Proactively contribute to the root cause analysis and investigations of incidents across the Trust.
• Work at the forefront of practice innovation, creating precedence, generating monitoring and evaluating practice protocols to advance professional practice.
• Maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority of professional expertise through practice and continual professional developments.
• Lead the implementation of evidence based adult mental health best practice, monitoring and evaluating patient care and developing clinical pathways to underpin this, including the implementation of appropriate interventions which relate to community settings.
• Function at an advanced level of practice operating in an autonomous manner in order to provide expert patient care, and develop own and others knowledge.
• Work in liaison with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking appropriate opportunity to consult with patients and carers, formally and informally.
• Provide leadership and development within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and the wider acute speciality.
• Establish systems to ensure that practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidence‑based materials and tools that will support practice and promote evidence based health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Mental Health with current NMC registration.
• Non‑medical prescribing qualification.
• Evidence of continuing personal learning and development.

Experience

• Contemporary experience within old age speciality.
• A well‑developed professional portfolio.
• Experience of leadership and change management.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services.
• Evidence of significant contribution to service developments.
• Experience of providing education to various and multi‑professional groups.
• Evidence of applying research in practice.
• Experience of research.

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust