Mental Health Practitioner

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust


Date: 1 week ago
City: Stoke-on-Trent
Contract type: Full time
Band 5 Mental Health Practitioners – Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team:

We have vacancies for experienced, passionate and motivated professionals to join our OUTSTANDING Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team at the Harplands Hospital. If you are ambitious, enthusiastic, innovative and creative and want to make a difference, we want to hear from you. If you are ready for your next challenge, let us support you in achieving it.

At our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team we provide OUTSTANDING services across Stoke and Staffordshire, and we want to ensure we provide the highest of standards and care at first point of contact and in crisis. Working within Crisis Care can be demanding but one of the most rewarding. We welcome applicants to come and see what we do, and to see the amazing team you could be a part of.

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 assist in setting and maintaining standards of care and will ensure effective co-ordination of the service ensuring individuals who present in crisis and with an acute mental health need receives a safe and effective response to their needs.

The post holder will co-ordinate care in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure a collaborative approach is applied to recovery focused patient care.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our team prides themselves on compassion, teamwork and resilience.

The Team will offer a full induction package.

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate person who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country.

In return we offer;

A competitive progressive salary

We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)

Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts

Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression

Excellent pension scheme available

27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)

Free parking

Excellent access to staff Wellbeing initiatives, including a workplace choir, (Combined Voices), a running club (Combined run Club) and much much more.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Leanne Norman Job title: Operational Team Manager Email address: [email protected]

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