Job overview
The service triages and assesses all urgent and emergency referrals to identify the most appropriate service to meet individual need when persons are experiencing a mental health crisis. This involves telephone triage, support and signposting and face to face full needs assessment care planning and referring on to relevant services.
The team currently consists of Community Mental Health Nurses, Psychologist, Consultant Psychiatrist and other associated medical staff.
The team provide a service over a 24/7 period encompassing a varied shift pattern.
Main duties of the job
To provide a clinical service that is service user focussed.
To triage all mental health referrals to the Crisis Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.
To carry out full assessments of needs including comprehensive risk assessments of persons referred or self -referred to the service.
To recommend and refer, where treatment/intervention is indicated, to the most appropriate team/ service utilising all available resources.
To identify where appropriate treatment based interventions for all service users ensuring that best practice is implemented.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
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This advert is for Crisis and Home Treatment Practitioner with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (covering maternity leave). The application deadline is 19 Jun 2026.
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