Urgent Care Practitioner - Incentives Apply

Are you passionate about providing a service to meet the needs of people, carers and their families?

Do you value working positively, respectfully and collaboratively?

If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

We're looking for Band 6 Urgent Care Practitioners to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHT)

The Urgent Care Mental Health Practitioner is required to prioritise and respond to the needs of patients referred to the Urgent Care Service according to presenting level of urgency so as to manage safety of patients and agreed response times.

To carry out psychosocial assessment, including risk assessment and to formulate a clinically appropriate onward plan of care, providing specialist mental health advice, support and interventions to staff, carers and patients and other agencies. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students., To provide intensive and responsive crisis resolution and home treatment to adults aged 18 and over with a functional mental health problem, ensuing individuals are treated in the least restrictive fashion which is consistent with their clinical and safety needs.

Regularly undertake the role of leading and co-ordinating the teams daily activity to ensure continuous and safe support of all patients referred to CRHT case load.

Taking referrals directly from referrers, screening referrals, accepting and declining referrals (based on criteria) and arranging appropriate initial response to referrals.

To work closely and effectively with inpatient units to facilitate effective and timely discharge for patients who without CRHT would remain inpatient

To assess and manage ongoing risks as identified during the assessment ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the patients and cares.

To ensure clinical practice is evidence based and consisted with relevant NICE guidelines and trust policies.

To contribute to and support managers, colleagues and wider organisations in implementing service developments towards successful change.

To apply highly specialist skills and knowledge in order to establish professional competence and fitness to practice.

About us

We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-produced wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.

Mental Healthcare should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.

Your benefits:

• Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team


• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development


• Free parking on-site


• Access to a host of discount schemes


• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC


• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)


• Excellent NHS Pension