Nurse Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), during a period of positive change and ongoing service development., The Crisis Care Centre is an essential component of the urgent care pathway and provides an all age single point of access to mental health services in norths Staffordshire, whilst also offering a 24-hour, seven daycrisis service with the additional offer of intensive home treatment as an alternative to an acute inpatient admission.

The Crisis Care Centre in line with the NHS Long Term Plan will be expanding this offer too supportindividuals in crisis by receiving referrals via NHS 111, in addition to the dedicated line for ambulance, police,GP's and other professionals requiring an urgent mental health response.

The post holder will support the operational team manager in delivering a high-quality mental health service for individuals presenting in crisis with acute mental health needs in North Staffordshire. The post holder will support the leadership and development of the service to improve practice and work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries, implementing and evaluating evidenced based standards,guidelines and policies. The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team and will be expected to work autonomouslywithin a multi-disciplinary framework, providing training and staff development, specialist assessment, clinical support and time limited interventions to service users. The post holder will act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstratehigh levels of decision making and clinical judgement.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated practitioner to contribute advanced clinical expertise, leadership and decision making to our multidisciplinary team. This substantive band 7 post will play a key role in delivering safe, responsive, and person-centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises in the community.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.