Job summary
- Main area
- Home Treatment Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-AAUC-7521597-PC
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tolworth Hospital
- Town
- Surbiton
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/10/2025
Employer heading
Nurse Practitioner (Kingston HTT)
NHS AfC: Band 6
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Nurse Practitioner Band 6 (RMN)
If you want to live locally and work locally, with an employer that offers flexible and agile working with great development and career progression opportunities, then this may be the role you!
The post holder MUST have a valid driving licence and access to a car to enable them to carry out home visits. Please do not apply if you do not fit these criteria.
Kingston Home Treatment Team (KHTT) is a multidisciplinary, community based mental health team that aims to provide a safe and effective home based assessment and treatment service as an alternative to in-patient admission, and for early discharge from the ward in the least disruptive and restrictive environment. It works in conjunction with, and is integrated with, other local service elements. The workload is team-based and team members do not carry a specific caseload.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based at Tolworth Hospital and work across the borough of Kingston. There is an expectation that the post holder is able to work shifts.
Early Shift: 08:30 to 16:30
Late Shift: 14:30 to 22:30
Key areas of responsibilities:-
- engaging clients in crisis
- participating in assessment and treatment
- providing a range of bio/psycho/social interventions for service users and carers
- planning for robust and sustainable discharge/transfer and aftercare
- involving clients in planning and evaluating care given
- working as part of the team to achieve the best possible care for clients
support clients in developing a Collaborative Crisis Plan
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton
To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site’s layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three. Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· The post holder will be based in the Home Treatment Team (CHTT) and be the first point of contact for all referrals.
· The post holder will be directly accountable for care planned and implemented within the limits of his/her professional competence.
· To develop and maintain a high standard of practice based on assessment, through the use of psycho-education, the Recovery Model, and supportive clinical management.
· To communicate/liaise effectively within relevant agencies and teams to ensure that an integrated programme of care is provided throughout.
· To attend clinical meetings to provide the team with relevant information in relation to caseload and to feedback on new assessments and use of zoning.
· To identify and support carers’ and facilitate assessments where appropriate.
· To offer advice and support to other professionals on issues of referrals to HTT or signposting if not appropriate for HTT.
· To undertake home visits (single or joint) single visits only when there are no health, risk or safety issues evident.
· To actively participate in relapse prevention work
· To actively support the client in self- management of their symptoms and diagnosis and with the formation of their collaborative crisis plan.
· To provide comprehensive risk assessments in accordance with the Trust Guidelines.
· To ensure all Key Performance Indicators are assessed, recorded and updated regularly on RIO.
· To work flexibly in ensuring maximum efforts are made to engage service users/carers.
· To ensure effective communication with the inpatient service, social services, CMHT’s and to include other statutory and non statutory organisations including the voluntary sector to provide continuity of care.
· To have knowledge of the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act Care Programme Approach, Care Act, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Community Treatment Orders.
· To maintain confidentiality at all times, and ensure accurate records are maintained in accordance with NMC guidelines and Trust Policy.
· To manage medicines in accordance with the NMC guidelines and The Trust Medicines Policy
· To ensure effective communication with Children & Families Teams when safeguarding children
· To report to Team manager any incident or Serious Untoward Incidents that may take place and
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN (current NMC registration)
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Full and current drivers licence and car owner (or willing to take part in car lease scheme run by the Trust)
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship ,ENB 998 or equivalent
- RGN
- Diploma in cognitive behavioural therapy/psychodynamic counselling
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems in a community or outpatient setting post qualification
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing and managing crisis with those with a severe mental illness
- Experience of working as a clinical supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing and supervising staff
- Experience of contributing to policy and procedure development and implementation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mimi Faugoo
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07773241814
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