# Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/urgent-care-practitioner-crisis-resolution-home-treatment-team/b2a84653-9b7b-4eab-9598-9bd828d0a271 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/urgent-care-practitioner-crisis-resolution-home-treatment-team/b2a84653-9b7b-4eab-9598-9bd828d0a271.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Woodlands Centre for Acute Care - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata for part time - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-26T14:11:33.539Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/St_LeonardsonSea/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8237805 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8237805?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you looking for a new challenge and want to offer the best care in times of Crisis? Do you want to help shape the future of the CRHT? We're looking for like-minded people to join us and help provide top quality care to those who need it. We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or Occupational Therapists (OT) to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at Woodlands Centre for Acute Care, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The CRHT team is a part of acute care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission. CRHT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service. ### Main duties of the job As an Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families and partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges. As well as providing specialist nursing advice and carry out nursing procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention. You may also be involved in providing clinical supervision to staff and students. This may include acting as shift co-ordinator as needed to lead the team on shift, as well as allocating and delegating tasks to colleagues. You will be expected to liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills if you are looking for career progression in the future. There are always opportunities for extra bank work and further experience throughout the Urgent Care Hub within our other services, and we welcome the opportunity to support your career if you are looking to gain added experience from another service area. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities In order to be a successful Community Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will have: - Professional Registration - Experience of working in the relevant care group - Experience of working with people with complex needs - Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments It would also be advantageous if you have: - Experience of supervising staff The service operates 7 days a week and there will be an expectation to work weekends and shifts, which would involve early and late shifts. Please note the ability to travel is essential for this role as regular home visits to service users and occasional visits to other trust sites is required. See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse with current registration \[mental health/LD/Adult\], appropriate to the job role. - Evidence of continuous professional development ### – Knowledge/Experience **Essential** - Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group - Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments ## Documents - [protocol (pdf, 368.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551550) - [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254) - [crht band 6 job description (pdf, 267.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551055) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.