Job summary
Base: Crisis Care Centre, Harplands HospitalAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) during a period of positive change and ongoing service development.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated practitioner to contribute advanced clinical expertise, leadership, and decision making to our multi-disciplinary team. This substantive Band 7 post will play a key role in delivering safe, responsive, and person-centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises in the community.
About the Role
Working as part of an established MDT, the post holder will:
- Provide senior clinical leadership and autonomous decision making in the management of acutely unwell service users in community settings.
- Undertake comprehensive and advanced mental health assessments, including formulation and complex risk management.
- Lead on admission avoidance and facilitate early discharge, supporting reduction in inpatient pressures.
- Prescribe and manage treatment plans within their scope of practice and work collaboratively with medical colleagues where required.
- Liaise effectively with inpatient wards, community services, and partner agencies to ensure continuity of care.
- Contribute to ongoing service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance activities.
For an informal discussion, please contact Leanne Norman, Operational Team Manager (leanne.norman@combined.nhs.uk).
Main duties of the job
The Crisis Care Centre is an essential component of the urgent care pathway and provides an all age single point of access to mental health services in norths Staffordshire, whilst also offering a 24-hour, seven day crisis service with the additional offer of intensive home treatment as an alternative to an acute inpatient admission. The Crisis Care Centre in line with the NHS Long Term Plan will be expanding this offer too support individuals in crisis by receiving referrals via NHS 111, in addition to the dedicated line for ambulance, police, GP's and other professionals requiring an urgent mental health response.The post holder will support the operational team manager in delivering a high quality mental healthservice for individuals presenting in crisis with acute mental health needs in North Staffordshire.The post holder will support the leadership and development of the service to improve practice and work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries, implementing and evaluating evidenced based standards, guidelines and policies.The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team and will be expected to work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary framework, providing training and staff development, specialist assessment, clinical support and time limited interventions to service users.The post holder will act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstrate high levels of decision making and clinical judgement.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties/Responsibilities1. Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and HomeTreatment Team.2. Specifically, lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of qualityindicators and outcomes.3. Demonstrate highly developed mental health nursing skills.4. Provide consultancy both within the Trust and externally for partner organisations as an adult mentalhealth professional expert.5. Working with the directorate senior team, take a lead in monitoring performance against theDepartment of Health, CQC and NICE mandatory requirements and regulations.6. Proactively contribute to the root cause analysis and investigations of incidents across the Trust.7. Work at the forefront of practice innovation, creating precedence, generating monitoring and evaluatingpractice protocols to advance professional practice.8. Maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority of professional expertisethrough practice and continual professional developments.9. Lead the implementation of evidence based adult mental health best practice, monitoring andevaluating patient care and developing clinical pathways to underpin this, including the implementationof appropriate interventions which relate to community settings.10. Function at an advanced level of practice operating in an autonomous manner in order to provide expertpatient care, and develop own and others knowledge.11. Work in liaison with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking appropriate opportunityto consult with patients and carers, formally and informally.12. Provide leadership and development within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and HomeTreatment Team and the wider acute speciality.13. Establish systems to ensure that practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidencedbased materials and tools that will support practice and promote evidence based health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties/Responsibilities1. Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and HomeTreatment Team.2. Specifically, lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of qualityindicators and outcomes.3. Demonstrate highly developed mental health nursing skills.4. Provide consultancy both within the Trust and externally for partner organisations as an adult mentalhealth professional expert.5. Working with the directorate senior team, take a lead in monitoring performance against theDepartment of Health, CQC and NICE mandatory requirements and regulations.6. Proactively contribute to the root cause analysis and investigations of incidents across the Trust.7. Work at the forefront of practice innovation, creating precedence, generating monitoring and evaluatingpractice protocols to advance professional practice.8. Maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority of professional expertisethrough practice and continual professional developments.9. Lead the implementation of evidence based adult mental health best practice, monitoring andevaluating patient care and developing clinical pathways to underpin this, including the implementationof appropriate interventions which relate to community settings.10. Function at an advanced level of practice operating in an autonomous manner in order to provide expertpatient care, and develop own and others knowledge.11. Work in liaison with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking appropriate opportunityto consult with patients and carers, formally and informally.12. Provide leadership and development within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and HomeTreatment Team and the wider acute speciality.13. Establish systems to ensure that practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidencedbased materials and tools that will support practice and promote evidence based health outcomes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Mental Health with current NMC registration ? Non-medical prescribing qualification. ? Evidence of continuing personal learning and development
Experience
Essential
- Contemporary experience within old age speciality. ? A well-developed professional portfolio ? Experience of leadership and change management ? Experience of working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services ? Evidence of significant contribution to service developments ? Experience of providing education to various and multi-professional groups ? Evidence of applying research in practice ? Experience of research, a
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Mental Health with current NMC registration ? Non-medical prescribing qualification. ? Evidence of continuing personal learning and development
Experience
Essential
- Contemporary experience within old age speciality. ? A well-developed professional portfolio ? Experience of leadership and change management ? Experience of working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services ? Evidence of significant contribution to service developments ? Experience of providing education to various and multi-professional groups ? Evidence of applying research in practice ? Experience of research, a
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
