Crisis and Treatment Practitioner

Main area Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (covering maternity leave) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

Employer Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Woodlands Unit Town Rotherham Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2026 23:59

The service triages and assesses all urgent and emergency referrals to identify the most appropriate service to meet individual need when persons are experiencing a mental health crisis. This involves telephone triage, support and signposting and face to face full needs assessment care planning and referring on to relevant services.

The team currently consists of Community Mental Health Nurses, Psychologist, Consultant Psychiatrist and other associated medical staff.

The team provide a service over a 24/7 period encompassing a varied shift pattern.

There is a possibility of cover into the Home treatment team, who provide intensive support at home, and an early discharge pathway to facilitate discharge from the wards.

To provide a clinical service that is service user focussed.

To triage all mental health referrals to the Crisis Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.

To carry out full assessments of needs including comprehensive risk assessments of persons referred or self
-referred to the service.

To recommend and refer, where treatment/intervention is indicated, to the most appropriate team/ service utilising all available resources.

To identify where appropriate treatment based interventions for all service users ensuring that best practice is implemented.

• Mental Nursing Certificate (RMN) Registration on NMC
• Evidence of post registration training

• Demonstrable post registration experience as an RMN
• Professional experience of working in acute adult mental health.
• Experience of MDT working
• Skills in coordinating and planning inter‑agency approaches in mental health care
• Experience of assessing and managing risk
• ENB 998 or other NMC approved mentor qualification or mentor qualification appropriate to discipline- or willingness to complete.

• Ability to work as part of a multi‑professional team
• Understanding of the CPA process
• Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning
• Experience of Safeguarding

• Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
• Skills in co‑ordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
• An understanding of current mental health issues

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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.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high number of applications.