Job requirements
Essential
25 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to work independently and exercise professional autonomy, while recognising risk and escalating concerns appropriately.
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Experience in developing and implementing Risk Management Plans in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies.
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Demonstrable skills in clinical risk assessment, contingency planning, and managing individuals in acute distress
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Competent in delivering brief psychological interventions, including crisis management and harm minimisation strategies.
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Knowledge and application of CBT-informed approaches in practice.
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Ability to manage high emotional distress and challenging behaviours, including verbal aggression.
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Experience supporting individuals with self harm behaviours, focusing on safety and recovery-oriented care.
- Knowledge
Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision.
- Knowledge
Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
- Knowledge
Skills in coordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
- Knowledge
An understanding of current mental health issues.
- Knowledge
Specialist Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, including; Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Care Act, Human Rights Act
- Experience
Demonstrable post registration experience as a Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist working with people who have complex mental health needs.
- Experience
Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) working.
- Experience
Skills in coordinating and planning inter agency approaches in mental health care
- Experience
Demonstrable experience of assessing high levels of risk and formulation of robust risk management plans including the ability to make decisions to ensure the safety of individuals and carers.
- Experience
Experience of conducting comprehensive and holistic mental health assessments which attend to needs across biopsychosocial domains.
- Experience
Experience in safeguarding (both adult and children) and specialist risk assessment.
- Experience
Supervising students, and junior members of staff when required.
- Experience
Experience of delivery evidence-based treatments and interventions.
- Experience
Co-producing care plans and crisis plans alongside client and families.
- Qualifications
Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with current registration with relevant professional regulator.
- Qualifications
Evidence of Relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
- Qualifications
Practice Educator training / experience of supporting students.
- Qualifications
Risk Assessment and Management Training.
Desirable
29 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a clear and concise command of English
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Strong report-writing ability, ensuring accurate and professional documentation.
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Highly skilled in engagement and relationship building, including working with carers, families, and support networks.
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Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise workload dynamically in response to changing demands
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IT literate, with experience using Microsoft systems and willingness to learn new digital tools.
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Proactive, motivated, and conscientious approach to delivering high-quality care
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Effective contributor within a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
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Ability to support and contribute to the development of junior staff, including informal teaching and mentoring.
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Capable of delivering training and education to both qualified and unqualified staff.
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Demonstrates a strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and challenges discriminatory behaviour constructively
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Recognises the importance of family/carer involvement in care planning and risk management.
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Willingness to engage in research, service development, and continuous improvement.
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Passionate about delivering person-centred, high-quality services
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Ability to undertake physical interventions, including moving & handling and management of violence/aggression (MVA).
- Knowledge
Knowledge and understanding of the roles of other professionals working within mental health
- Knowledge
Excellent knowledge of community resources both statutory and non-statutory
- Knowledge
Detailed understanding of the principles of recovery
- Knowledge
Ability to assess and respond to individuals presenting with self-harming behaviours, implementing appropriate interventions including risk management, harm minimisation, and brief therapeutic strategies to ensure safety and promote recovery.
- Knowledge
Experience of working within trauma informed services
- Experience
Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience
Previous experience of working in the environment where the post is held.
- Experience
Experience of working with statutory and non statutory agencies
- Experience
Involving service users and carers in care delivery
- Experience
Experience of working within a crisis service.
- Experience
Experience of acute inpatient experience.
- Experience
Working with service users and carers in service improvement
- Experience
Values based recruitmenT
- Qualifications
Suicide Prevention Training.
- Qualifications
Supervision Training.
Job overview
We know that service users recover quickly at home, and you will be an integral component for ensuring that this is done in a safe and specific way as an alternative to hospital admission, working alongside the wider MDT.
As a Band 6 Nurse in the CRHT, you will be responsible for providing urgent and emergency triage, advice and assessment for people in a mental health crisis. You will also be responsible for undertaking home treatment visits as indicated by the MDT. This will include the provision and delivery of highly skilled nursing care, including care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
You will be required to work autonomously, understand capacity and flow of the service and the organisation, attend MDT meetings, undertake gatekeeping assessments for inpatient admissions and crisis house admissions, work collaborative with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service and facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated. As a Band 6 Nurse in the CRHT, you will also provide clinical leadership and supervision for junior staff.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a clinical service that is service user focussed, accessible and responsive on 24-hour, 7-day a week basis.
- To triage all mental health referrals into the Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.
- To provide and deliver highly skilled nursing care, including full mental health assessment, care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
- To recommend and refer, where treatment is indicated, to the most appropriate team/service.
- To undertake gatekeeping assessments for inpatient admissions and crisis house admissions.
- To work collaboratively with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service.
- To facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated.
- To deliver home based treatment interventions for all clients, ensuring best practice is implemented.
- Where appropriate to participate in Mental Health Act assessments so that alternatives to formal hospital admission are considered.
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
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.
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This advert is for Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Practitioner with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 13 Oct 2026.
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