Physical & Mental Health Nurse

Oxford Health NHS Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a full-time Physical & Mental Health Nurse to join their Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. This role involves conducting clinical assessments, managing mental health crises, and ensuring comprehensive physical health assessments. The ideal candidate should be an NMC qualified nurse with experience in crisis intervention and collaboration with various stakeholders. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care for those facing acute crises.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discounts

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• NMC qualified nurse with experience in physical and mental health care.
• Evidence of post registration development.
• Experience working collaboratively with carers.

Responsibilities

• Undertake clinical assessment and manage mental health crises.
• Deliver intensive, short-term crisis interventions.
• Develop and evaluate individual care plans.

Skills

Senior clinical assessment

Crisis intervention

Mental health care

Physical health assessment

Collaboration with services

Risk management

Education

Registered Nurse (Mental Health - Physical Health)

Job description

Are you an NMC qualified nurse seeking a new opportunity? We are seeking a full-time, dual role Physical & Mental Health Nurse to deliver integrated mental and physical healthcare to adults experiencing acute mental health crisis, with a particular focus on people living with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who are at increased risk of physical health inequality.

You will provide senior clinical assessment, triage, and short-term intensive treatment within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), while also ensuring that physical health needs are identified, assessed, monitored and acted upon as an integral part of crisis care.

Our core mission is to provide patient‑centred, intensive care and treatment to individuals and their families in their homes as an alternative to hospital admission. Crisis care is a highly specialised intervention that involves supporting our most vulnerable service users in the least restrictive setting possible. This is achieved through recovery‑focused, psychosocial interventions that help individuals regain or maintain independence.

The CRHTT (Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team) works closely with Inpatient wards, Inpatient social workers, Adult Mental Health Teams (AMHTs), patient flow transformation initiatives across inpatient and community services and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, ensuring continuous support for those in crisis.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake timely triage, assessment and formulation of individuals presenting in mental health crisis.
• Deliver intensive, short‑term crisis interventions in line with the CRHTT clinical model.
• Develop, implement and evaluate individualised care plans in collaboration with service users, carers and the MDT.
• Assess and manage clinical risk, escalating concerns appropriately and taking assertive action to prevent harm.
• Identify and respond to physical health needs as a routine and essential component of crisis assessment.
• Undertake and/or coordinate physical health checks, including cardio‑metabolic screening (e.g. blood pressure, BMI, smoking status, blood tests where competent).
• Support engagement with primary care and specialist services, ensuring effective information sharing and follow‑up.

Please note, this role is currently under job evaluation, so the responsibilities of the role may be subject to change.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Registered Nurse (Mental Health - Physical Health)

Experiance

• Evidence of post registration development
• Experiance of working collaboratively with carers to meet both the needs of the carer and user
• Experience of working with the acutely mentally ill in a variety of settings

Others

• Own car or access to alternative travel for business use for the ability to travel between patient homes, hospital sites and to regional meetings

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.