Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), during a period of positive change and ongoing service development.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated practitioner to contribute advanced clinical expertise, leadership and decision making to our multidisciplinary team. This substantive band 7 post will play a key role in delivering safe, responsive, and person-centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises in the community.

Main duties of the job

The Crisis Care Centre is an essential component of the urgent care pathway and provides an all age single point of access to mental health services in norths Staffordshire, whilst also offering a 24-hour, seven day  crisis service with the additional offer of intensive home treatment as an alternative to an acute inpatient admission.

The Crisis Care Centre in line with the NHS Long Term Plan will be expanding this offer too support individuals in crisis by receiving referrals via NHS 111, in addition to the dedicated line for ambulance, police,  GP’s and other professionals requiring an urgent mental health response.

The post holder will support the operational team manager in delivering a high-quality mental health service for individuals presenting in crisis with acute mental health needs in North Staffordshire.   The post holder will support the leadership and development of the service to improve practice and work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries, implementing and evaluating evidenced based standards,  guidelines and policies.  The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team and will be expected to work autonomously  within a multi-disciplinary framework, providing training and staff development, specialist assessment, clinical support and time limited interventions to service users.  The post holder will act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstrate  high levels of decision making and clinical judgement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Duties/Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
• Specifically, lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators and outcomes.
• Demonstrate highly developed mental health nursing skills.
• Provide consultancy both within the Trust and externally for partner organisations as an adult mental health professional expert.
• Working with the directorate senior team, take a lead in monitoring performance against the Department of Health, CQC and NICE mandatory requirements and regulations.
• Proactively contribute to the root cause analysis and investigations of incidents across the Trust.
• Work at the forefront of practice innovation, creating precedence, generating monitoring and evaluating practice protocols to advance professional practice.
• Maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority of professional expertise through practice and continual professional developments.
• Lead the implementation of evidence based adult mental health best practice, monitoring and evaluating patient care and developing clinical pathways to underpin this, including the implementation  of appropriate interventions which relate to community settings.
• Function at an advanced level of practice operating in an autonomous manner in order to provide expert patient care, and develop own and other’s knowledge.
• Work in liaison with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking appropriate opportunity to consult with patients and carers, formally and informally.
• Provide leadership and development within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and the wider acute speciality.
• Establish systems to ensure that practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidenced based materials and tools that will support practice and promote evidence based health outcomes.

Specialist/technical requirements  The post holder will require comprehensive computer skills and be proficient in using the current EPR system. The post holder will need to hold an Independent Non-Medical Prescribing qualification/or working  towards this.