Home Treatment Practitioner

Employer Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Onyx Centre Town Doncaster, DN4 8QN
Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/09/2026 23:59

Doncaster Home Treatment Team

Band 5 Home Treatment Practitioner

37.5 hours – 08:00 to 21:30 365 days a year

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 nurse to join Doncaster intensive Home Treatment Team. We provide short-term intensive support in the community to individuals with acute mental health needs to prevent hospital admission.

We provide a service between 08.00 and 21.30 7 days per week and staff are expected to work shift patterns to cover this. Most team members work 3 long shifts, which helps promote a good work life balance.

The team works in partnership with third sector and peer organisations to deliver person centred crisis care, therefore transparency and openness is vital.

Are you a passionate mental health nurse who wants to make a real difference to individuals and their families? Do you want to play an essential part in a person's recovery journey? If so, working with Home Treatment Team could be for you!

To provide a clinical service that is patient focussed, accessible and responsive on a 7-day a week basis.

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

To provide and deliver highly skilled nursing care, including full mental health assessment, care planning and care delivery, biopsychosocial interventions, clinical risk assessment and management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.

To recommend and refer, where treatment is indicated, to the most appropriate team/service.

To work collaboratively with the crisis house to lead on care for admissions as a service.

To facilitate early discharge from the inpatient wards where clinically indicated.

To deliver home based treatment interventions for all patients, ensuring best practice is implemented .

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

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The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse and current professional registration with the NMC or registered allied health professional.
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and IT Level 2 or equivalent.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Risk Assessment and Management Training.
• Supervision Training.

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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.