Mental Health Practitioner

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Band 5 Mental Health Practitioners - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team:

We have vacancies for experienced, passionate and motivated professionals to join our OUTSTANDING Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team at the Harplands Hospital.

£29,970 - £36,483 per annum, full time 37.5 hours per week.

If you are ambitious, enthusiastic, innovative and creative and want to make a difference, we want to hear from you. If you are ready for your next challenge, let us support you in achieving it.

At our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team we provide OUTSTANDING services across Stoke and Staffordshire, ensuring we provide the highest standards of care at first point of contact and in crisis. Working within Crisis Care can be demanding but one of the most rewarding. We welcome applicants to come and see what we do, and to see the amazing team you could be a part of.

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 North Staffordshire, while 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 to support individuals in crisis by receiving referrals via NHS 111, in addition to the dedicated line for ambulance, police, GPs, and other professionals requiring an urgent mental health response.

The post-holder will assist in setting and maintaining standards of care and will ensure effective co-ordination of the service, ensuring individuals who present in crisis and with an acute mental health need receive a safe and effective response to their needs.

The post-holder will co-ordinate care in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure a collaborative approach is applied to recovery-focused patient care.

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 on ensuring 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 of becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. 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 recognize 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 responsibilities

• To act at all times in accordance with relevant professional body.
• To perform all aspects of the role in accordance with Trust values and Trust policy and procedures.
• To participate in the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of individual care plans.
• To act as a role model.
• In conjunction with the operational team manager, clinical co-coordinator, and deputy team manager, take responsibility for setting, maintaining, and evaluating standards of care.
• To liaise with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and outside agencies in the implementation of patient care.
• To ensure that care activities are research-based and in keeping with changes in the field of activity.
• To contribute to the development of ideas and innovative practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Valid professional registered qualification

Experience

• Demonstrate the ability to carry out all care needs without direct supervision.

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust