# Crisis and Home Treatment Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Doncaster
- **Region:** North East and Yorkshire
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (covering maternity leave)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (24/7 rota work)
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-22T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-08T12:12:46.013Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Rotherham/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Crisis_Resolution_Home_Treatment/Crisis_Resolution_Home_Treatment-v8066061
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8066061?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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

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

## Job Details

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.

## Job Description

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.

## 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

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent report-writing skills
- IT skills.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team
- Understanding of the CPA process
- Excellent assessment skills, including risk assessment
- Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning
- Experience of Safeguarding

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
- Skills in co-ordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
- An understanding of current mental health issues

### Experience

**Essential**

- Demonstrable post registration experience as an RMN
- Professional experience of working in acute adult mental health.
- Experience of MDT working
- Skills in coordinating and planning inter-agency approaches in mental health care
- Experience of assessing and managing risk

**Desirable**

- ENB 998 or other NMC approved mentor qualification or mentor qualification appropriate to discipline- or willingness to complete.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Mental Nursing Certificate (RMN) Registration on NMC
- Evidence of post registration training

## Documents

- [jd & ps (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10356892)
- [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515)
- [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789)
- [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919)

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