Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Nursing - Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will include Nights, shift working and in-reach to Crisis House and Inpatient wards across our bed base.)
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-9785
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CRHTT offices, 1st Floor, Cygnet House. Old College Court,
- Town
- Ware.
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 Per annum, Pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/11/2025
Employer heading
Crisis Team Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
You will be:
- An experienced clinician working with service users at various phases of their mental health.
- Passionate about making a difference for individuals and their carer’s during their personal journey.
- Ambitious to work within this challenging role, in a challenging environment, with real scope to develop and influence practice.
Main duties of the job
The role:
- This is a specific role within the wider SE CRHTT to provide in-reach and support to our new Crisis House in Buntingford. Working with the wider CRHTT colleagues and professions the post-holder will predominantly work 5 days per week and in-reach as needed to support service users staying at the crisis House and our partner Agency - Waythrough - who are specialists in MH support in community settings.
- Providing urgent assessments to those considered to have acute mental health concerns and to robust home treatment options as an alternative to hospital admission.
- A role that is varied and challenging, offering an opportunity to work in a variety of settings, with people with a variety of mental health needs.
- As gatekeepers for hospital admission, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and effective treatment in the community, and facilitate early discharges from the acute inpatient units.
- Working collaboratively with our service users, their carers and our colleagues to positively manage risk in the acute care pathway, whilst enabling an individuals’ recovery journey.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Manage the referrals process for the Crisis House and undertake in-reach on a daily basis with Se CRHTT colleagues.
- Work with an experienced clinician working with service users at various phases of their mental health.
- Be passionate about making a difference for individuals and their carer’s during their personal journey.
- Provide urgent assessments to those considered to have acute mental health concerns and to robust home treatment options as an alternative to hospital
- Act as a gatekeeper for hospital admission
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and effective treatment in the community, and facilitate early discharges from the acute inpatient units
- Work collaboratively with our service users, their carer’s and our colleagues to positively manage risk in the acute care pathway, whilst enabling and empowering an individuals’ recovery journey
- You must hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION, TRAINING
Essential criteria
- RMN or Dip / BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing
Desirable criteria
- ENB 998 / Preceptorship and Mentorship. ENB 812 / BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Nursing Practice (Mental Health) or similar training.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Post-registration experience with at least some experience at band 6
- Experience in acute and community areas.
- Experience in care planning, change management and use of Microsoft Office
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working with acute mental health problems in community setting
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stella Chiwashira
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01920443950
- Additional information
The Team Clinical Nurse Specialist, Suzanne Bernardi, can also be contacted in relation to this vacancy: office number is 01920443950
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