HTT Mental Health Practioner (Nurse) | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Barking & Dagenham Home Treatment Team is a HTAS (Home Treatment Accreditation Scheme) accredited crisis service and we are seeking 1 Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse with NMC registration and Teaching qualification (ENB 998, TICS, etc.).,

• To ensure that assessments and care plans reflect the psychological, emotional, and social care, treatment, intervention, and risk management needs appropriate to adults with acute mental health problems.
• To enable others to contribute effectively, acknowledging the nature of and context of their work, sharing and taking account of own and others' knowledge and skills, and differences in working and professional practice
• To work closely with other disciplines to deliver joined-up care.
• To take joint responsibility for teaching and assessing student nurses and other multi-disciplinary staff who are on placement within the team.
• To actively identify a full range of needs pertaining to equality and diversity issues that may arise for service users.
• Medication management.
• Rotating between HTT base, ICAH, and local A&Es as part of the gatekeeping responsibility
• Night duties
At NELFT we set very high standards to ensure we provide quality services. We require prospective employees to carry out an online literacy and numeracy test, equivalent to NVQ Level 2. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be required to undertake an assessment for these skills prior to the interview. Candidates who pass the interview will then be invited to the assessment. Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex. High Cost Area Supplement - London This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735).

A clear understanding of the Home Treatment/Crisis Resolution Model of service delivery including Gatekeeping and facilitating early discharges from the ward. Ability to work under pressure both as an independent practitioner as well as a team player.

Who are NELFT? NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts of its kind in the country. Providing mental health and community services across northeast London and parts of Essex, we are committed to making the most of opportunities to work across traditional healthcare boundaries to bring real benefits to our patients and service users. Our core aim is to improve the overall health and well-being of local people. We work closely with other organisations and are continuously looking to develop innovative, integrated, and comprehensive healthcare services that support people out of the hospital where possible. With an annual budget of more than £300 million, we provide care and treatment for a population of approximately 2.8 million people in their own homes, health centres and in hospital. We employ around 6,000 staff. The extensive range of specialist services we provide means that it is possible to get a variety of different working experiences within the same organisation., NELFT recognises its responsibility to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and protecting them from the risk of harm. We expect all staff to undertake this commitment and applicants will be subject to recruitment processes that support this.