HTT Mental Health Practioner; Nurse

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.

Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Barking & Dagenham Home Treatment Team is a HTAS (Home Treatment Accreditation Scheme) accredited crisis service and we are seeking 2 Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse with NMC registration and Teaching qualification (ENB 998, TICS, etc.).

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.

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 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.

• 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 gate‑keeping 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.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co‑produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

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