Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The service is staffed 24/7 including weekends, bank holidays.)
- Job ref
- 338-8203660-26
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Walker Street Centre
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse / Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic service that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people?
We are looking to appoint a Band 6 Specialist Nurse/Practitioner to our CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team. This is an exciting opportunity for mental health and learning disability nurses/social workers with experience of mental health to progress their skills working within Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment and CAMHS.
The CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team provides a 24/7 community crisis service for young people up to the age of 18 years, and the team works long day, long twilight and night shifts to support this. The team also provides intensive intervention, home treatment and in-reach into the CAMHS inpatient/acute hospital setting.
The team includes a Clinical Team Leader, Clinical Leads, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, a Consultant Psychologist, a Speciality Doctor, Specialist Nurses/Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Assistants.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have strong engagement skills, excellent communication skills, and some experience of working collaboratively with other agencies and professions.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake the crisis assessment of young people, develop care plans, and provide psychological interventions in relation to the young person's presenting need. They will also lead and supervise interventions provided by junior staff.
The CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team works closely with our CAMHS Inspire Inpatient Service and will support young people whilst they are inpatients to facilitate early discharge. Therefore, the successful candidate will be provided with additional training with regard to inpatient working to support this joint working.
Experience of working with young people with emotional or mental health difficulties, or working in a mental health urgent care, crisis or intensive setting, is essential.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications, Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Registration with the HCPC/NMC or equivalent
- A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical practice and service
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level e.g. degree or post graduate level or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning
- Diagnostic training
- Willingness to consider undertaking the training required to be a Practice Placements for students.
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate effective inter personal/communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of leadership/management skills and qualities
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with individuals with Neurodiverse needs
- Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in the relevant service area
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area
- Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Mcculloch
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Clinical Lead , Lewis Orchard-Reid - [email protected]
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