About this role
Job summary
An 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 multidisciplinary 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.
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 daycrisis 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 supportindividuals 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 health service 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 autonomouslywithin 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 demonstratehigh 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.
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.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job description Job responsibilities
Key Duties/Responsibilities
1. Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
2. Specifically, lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators 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 mental health professional expert.
5. Working with the directorate senior team, take a lead in monitoring performance against the Department 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 evaluating practiceprotocols to advance professional practice.
8. Maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority of professional expertise through practice and continual professional developments.
9. Lead the implementation of evidence based adult mental health best practice, monitoring and evaluating 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 expert patient care, and develop own and others knowledge.
11. Work in liaison with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking appropriate opportunity to consult with patients and carers, formally and informally.
12. Provide leadership and development within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and the wider acute speciality.
13. Establish systems to ensure that practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidenced based materials and tools that will support practice and promote evidence based health outcomes.
Specialist/technical requirementsThe post holder will require comprehensive computer skills and be proficient in using the current EPR system. The post holder will need to hold an Independent Non-Medical Prescribing qualification/or workingtowards this.
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
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, audit and clinical effectiveness
Knowledge Essential
Strong value base which drives practice ? Excellent interpersonal skills ? Leadership and management skills ? Good communication, both written and verbal ? Knowledge of the role of partner organisations ? An understanding of the policy/standards agenda in relation to services, and an understanding of the broader policy drivers pertinent to healthcare delivery ? Knowledge of best practice ? Ability to work in collaboration with colleagues ? Ability to work autonomously in taking critical decisions ? Ability to manage, supervise and support staff ? Strategic planning Ability to undertake critical analysis of complex policy information and synthesise into an interpretable format
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).
Employer details Employer name North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Address Crisis Care Centre, Harplands Hospital
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 6TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)