About this role
Job summary
Doncaster Home Treatment Team
Band 5 Home Treatment Practitioner
37.5 hours - 08:00 to 21:30 365 days a year
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 nurse to join Doncaster intensive Home Treatment Team. We provide short-term intensive support in the community to individuals with acute mental health needs to prevent hospital admission.
We provide a service between 08.00 and 21.30 7 days per week and staff are expected to work shift patterns to cover this. Most team members work 3 long shifts, which helps promote a good work life balance.
The team works in partnership with third sector and peer organisations to deliver person centred crisis care, therefore transparency and openness is vital.
Are you a passionate mental health nurse who wants to make a real difference to individuals and their families? Do you want to play an essential part in a person's recovery journey? If so, working with Home Treatment Team could be for you!
For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Sue Smith-Team Manager, 03000 211286.
Main duties of the job
To provide a clinical service that is patient focussed, accessible and responsive on a 7-day a week basis.
To triage all mental health referrals into the Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.
To provide and deliver highly skilled nursing care, including full mental health assessment, care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
To recommend and refer, where treatment is indicated, to the most appropriate team/service.
To work collaboratively with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service.
To facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated.
To deliver home based treatment interventions for all patients, ensuring best practice is implemented.
About us
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://workwithrdash.co.uk/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook
Job description Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Mental Health Nurse and current professional registration with the NMC or registered allied health professional. Key skills in literacy, numeracy and IT Level 2 or equivalent.
Desirable
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development. Risk Assessment and Management Training. Suicide Prevention Training. Supervision Training.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
Address Onyx Centre
Tickhill Road Site
Doncaster, DN4 8QN
DN4 8QN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)