Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team Senior Practitioner

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

Are you interested in working for an exciting proactive team? Enfield Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is looking for a band 6, nurse practitioner to join the team.

This is a diverse and challenging role that requires the development of specialist skills to deliver recovery focused interventions to adults in a mental health crisis. Our focus is to support service users to remain in their own home in order to aid their recovery during the crisis episode.

Main duties of the job

You will be a qualified Mental Health Nurse, and will have worked in a multi-disciplinary team. You will need to have post qualification experience in mental health and preferably within
crisis services. The post requires practitioners to be confident assessors who can make clear decisions about risk management, care planning and the appropriateness of home treatment team interventions. Effective
gatekeeping assessment and the identification and delivery of the best treatment packages for people presenting to services in crisis will also be key.

We are at the forefront of our field and we are dedicated to providing the highest quality of care to our patients and carers.
Are you passionate about the care and treatment of your clients? Do you want to make a lasting difference and be part of somebody's journey to improve their mental health? If so, Enfield Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is looking for you.

Working for our organisation

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specifications for a more detailed view of the role and its requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered with NMC as RMN, or Dip SW, or registered with HPC
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of post registration training

Professional Experience

Essential criteria

• At least 2 years post-registration experience at band 5 level.
• Experience of acute inpatients and/or community areas, working with people going through a mental health crisis.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of working autonomously in a community setting
• Experience of working in a crisis resolution/home treatment service

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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

• CRHT Senior Practitioner Job Description (PDF, 78.7KB)
• CRHT Senior Practitioner Person Specification (PDF, 192.8KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 261.8KB)