Senior Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bury St Edmunds seeks an experienced Senior Crisis Care Practitioner. The role involves working with adults experiencing mental distress, providing assessments and home treatment to avoid hospital admission. The ideal candidate will be a registered Mental Health Nurse with strong decision-making skills, able to work autonomously. Benefits include NHS pension, training programs, and generous leave options.

Benefits

NHS pension

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression opportunities

Starting annual leave of 27 days

Staff physiotherapy service

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse required.
• Experience in mental health care preferred.
• Exceptional complex decision-making skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide care, treatment, and assessment to patients.
• Conduct risk assessment and care/discharge planning.
• Lead clinical care delivery in a multidisciplinary team.

Job description

Suffolk CRHTT are now under new operational Leadership and line Management, making it an exciting time to join the team. Are you an experienced mental health professional looking to utilise your clinical skills in a different setting? The CRHT teams are seeking Senior Crisis Care Practitioners to join us. Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse? Are you looking for a challenge and do you want to make a difference to the people that we care for? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a role suited to you.

The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team are looking to recruit compassionate, dedicated, and conscientious individuals who want to make a positive difference to adults experiencing mental distress and mental health crises. CRHTT is seeking band 6 Practitioners who are positive change agents to lead a transformation agenda across the team.

This role is based at Wedgwood House (West Suffolk Hospital Site) and involves working within a multidisciplinary team to provide care, treatment, and assessment to patients both at base and in their own homes.

The CRHTT is proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in West Suffolk who present in crisis, including those needing intensive support to avoid hospital admission. We act as the 'front door' to acute services, providing triage, assessment, intensive support, and alternatives to admission, working closely with families and third-party providers. The staffing teams also support service users already in hospital to be supported at home at the earliest opportunity to aid recovery.

CRHTT delivers patient care 24/7, with shift work in place to ensure continuous service delivery. The role requires the ability to clinically lead care delivery and proficiency in clinical care including care/discharge planning, risk assessment, admission prevention, environmental health & safety, Mental Health Act work, and physical health care. We are looking for professionals interested in assessments and home treatment for people in crisis. CRHTT is an age-inclusive service.

Why work for us? We face challenges as a Trust but have ambitious aspirations, exciting transformation projects, and need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong professional networks and an exceptional leadership team committed to supporting and valuing staff.

Effective communication is essential, especially during this period of significant positive change and growth within the CRHTT team. We seek someone who can communicate professionally with a wide range of people to achieve the best outcomes for service users and their families/supporters. The ideal candidate will have exceptional complex decision-making skills, work autonomously while maintaining professional standards, and foster good working relationships across teams.

Benefits include:

• NHS pension
• Comprehensive in-house and external training programs
• Career progression opportunities
• Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 33 days based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physiotherapy service
• NHS discounts and many more benefits.