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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 20 January 2026

Band 6 practitioners have a crucial role in assessing mental health crisis in children and young people referred to the service and supporting the delivery of safe and effective home treatment for an identified group and in accordance with that persons' wellbeing and recovery action plan.

The main purpose of the role is to provide mental health assessment, risk assessment and treatment, with the primary focus of the work being the high‑quality assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a mental health issue within a physical healthcare setting, may have physical health conditions impacting upon their mental health.

You will be assessing a mental health crisis and delivering safe and effective home treatment for young people in accordance with their care plan and risk assessment. Assessing young people who present to our local acute trust, facilitate a holistic assessment along with robust safe discharging plan and risk management.

We would welcome applications from registered Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapist and Social Workers.

• Provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers, evaluation of individual treatment plans and discharge planning.
• Contribution to the delivery of home treatment through nursing care to an identified community client group and within a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Support for and facilitation of early discharge from hospital.
• This is a 24 hour service which will involve shifts including weekends and nights.
• To coordinate the workload of the team on an as required basis.
• To provide an active involvement in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of service user care which focuses on ensuring that service users are supported to remain in their own homes wherever hospitalisation can be safely and appropriately avoided.
• To be responsible for an agreed caseload to be determined by the operational lead and reviewed under Clinical supervision.
• Triage and assess referrals received by service in liaison with multi‑disciplinary colleagues as appropriate. Formulate and action appropriate response based on need, risk and urgency. Respond to and inform referrers/other professionals and responsible adults as necessary on decisions, plans, policy and best practice. Record this on Trust systems (RIO and Safeguard).

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like‑minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

• RNM
• OT
• Social Worker

• Mental health community experience
• mental health ward based experience
• Child and adolescent mental health experience

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experience £38,682 - £46,580 per annum