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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-AB-20990
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mill View Hospital
Town
Hove
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum / pro rata for part time
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/10/2025 23:59

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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

NHS AfC: Band 6

Come and join us

We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Occupational Therapist (OT) or Social Worker to join to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at MillView Hospital, covering Brighton and Hove.

The CRHT team is a part of urgent 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 as an alternative to hospital admission. 

CRHT are able to 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 £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details)

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. You will be providing specialist clinical advice, carrying out clinical procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

You will also be involved in providing clinical supervision to junior staff and students. This will include acting as shift co-ordinator as needed to lead the team on shift, as well as 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

Working for our organisation

We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-produced wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.

Mental Healthcare should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.   

 We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working- no take out, 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.

 Your benefits:

  • 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
  • Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
  • Excellent NHS Pension

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • REQUIREMENTS

    In order to be a successful Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will have:

    -          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.

     

    See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

     

 

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role.
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

– Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
  • Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kimann Jones
Job title
CRHTT Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 304 0081
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