Urgent Care Practitioner - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust; Crawley; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health is seeking Urgent Care Practitioners to join their Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide vital support to individuals in crisis while working closely with a dedicated team. You will assess, plan, and implement care strategies, ensuring clients receive the highest quality of support in their own homes. With a focus on career development and flexible working arrangements, this position promises a rewarding experience for those passionate about making a difference in mental health care. Join a supportive environment where your contributions are valued and recognized.

Benefits

Flexible working

Free parking on-site

Access to psychological support

Excellent supervision programmes

Generous holiday entitlement

NHS Pension

Relocation package up to £8,000

Discount schemes

Career development support

£4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses

Qualifications

• Professional registration and experience in mental health care required.
• Experience with complex health needs and conducting clinical assessments.

Responsibilities

• Develop care and recovery plans for service users with complex needs.
• Provide top-quality care and monitor treatment effectiveness.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Clinical Assessments

Care Planning

Supervision

Partnership Working

Education

Professional Registration

Completion of Mentorship Course

Job description

Urgent Care Practitioner - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours:

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (Long Days - 3 days per week)
Job ref: 354-AN-20644-F

Site: Langley Green Hospital
Town: Crawley
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum / pro rata for part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to offer the best care in times of Crisis?

Do you want to help shape the future of the CRHT?

We're looking for like-minded people to join us and help provide top quality care to those who need it.

We have brand-new opportunities for Band 6 Mental Health Nurses (RMN), Occupational Therapists (OT) or Social Workers to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at Langley Green Hospital, Crawley.

The CRHT team is part of acute care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes together with a day service group programme based at Langley Green Hospital as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHT can offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home, including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

Main duties of the job

As an Urgent Care Practitioner in our team, you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families, and partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools, and colleges.

As well as providing specialist nursing advice and carrying out nursing procedures, you will monitor the effectiveness of treatments to ensure the effectiveness of intervention.

You may also be involved in providing clinical supervision to staff and students, acting as shift coordinator as needed to lead the team on shift, and allocating and delegating tasks to colleagues. You will be expected to liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills if you are looking for career progression in the future.

There are always opportunities for extra bank work and further experience throughout the Urgent Care Hub within our other services, and we welcome the opportunity to support your career if you are looking to gain added experience from another service area.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to career development and future aspirations, and career goals are discussed openly and supported.

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside and enjoy the natural beauty the county has to offer. With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, there’s always somewhere new to visit.
• Embrace city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes.
• As a mental health trust, Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
• Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team.
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development.
• Free parking on-site.
• Access to a host of discount schemes.
• A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC.
• Excellent NHS Pension.
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays).
• A ‘Golden Hello’ or relocation package up to £2000 (see attached documentation for T&C’s).

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which positively impact the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part-time hours, flexible start/finish times, or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

• Professional Registration
• Experience of working in the relevant care group
• Experience of working with people with complex needs
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

It would also be advantageous if you have:

• Experience of supervising staff

The service operates 7 days a week and there will be an expectation to work weekends and shifts, which would involve early and late shifts.

Please note the ability to travel is essential for this role as regular home visits to service users and occasional visits to other trust sites are required.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

• Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant post-qualifying experience in the relevant care group
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Previous experience of working in the community

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.