Main area Mental Health Nurse, Urgent Care, CRHT, 136 Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts cover 24/7)
Job ref 301-JC-25-7074705
Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site St Georges Hospital
Town Stafford
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 10/04/2025 23:59
Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Care /136 Suite Urgent Care
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We have 2 posts available, 1 full time post and 1 part time post (30 hours per week).
We are delighted to offer an exciting and highly rewarding opportunity to join our new Crisis Care/136 Suite located within Walton House on St Georges Hospital site in Stafford and working across our other Urgent and Emergency Care Mental Health Services, supporting the assessment and delivery of meaningful interventions to service users accessing our Urgent Care Mental Health Services in the Staffordshire Locality.
As a Registered Mental Health professional, you will be part of a team providing specialist adult mental health support. You will play a crucial and pivotal role in assessing Mental Health needs of individuals who are referred to the service that are experiencing a Mental Health Crisis and require an urgent assessment of their needs. The role will be pivotal in supporting the delivery of safe and effective treatment and interventions for those individuals in line with a needs led plan of care.
You will be responsible for supporting a culture of “wrapping the service around the person” and will need to work flexibly to ensure that pathways work together as a whole service, to meet the person’s needs.
As an integral member of the Crisis Care/136 Suite team you will be expected to work flexibility to cover across our Urgent care services that operate 24/7 that may on occasions fall outside the core working hours of 8-6 7 days a week. Due to the nature of this role you will require the ability to adequately travel across a large geographical area when required.
Main duties of the job
As this role is a rotational post you will be expected to deliver a wide range of skills and utilise your extensive knowledge within all aspect of the 3 services to deliver effective and efficient care.
You will be responsible for undertaking clinical assessments, in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks and strengths to generate a formulation-based care plan agreed with all involved.
As part of this role, you will be expected to:
* You be responsible for delivering therapeutic interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties.
* Provide indirect care through the functions of educator and advice giver to relatives, carers and other organisations where appropriate.
* Participate in the delivery of the agreed aims and objectives of the service and identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.
* Providing care in line with NICE Guidance, COT Recovering Ordinary Lives Mental Health Strategy and COT Care Cluster guidance including other relevant local and national documentation.
* Supply, administer and monitor medications, complying with relevant Trust Procedures (for example Patient Group Directions and Non-Medical Prescribing) and NMC Guidance.
* Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered mental health Nurse or Allied Health Professional on NMC or HCPC Register.
* Post-registration experience, evidence of formal courses and training at diploma/degree level.
Experience
* Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties.
* Experience of integrating care delivery across multi disciplinary /multi agency teams.
* Experience of leading/contributing to CPA/SAP process.
Skills and Knowledge
* Knowledge of NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct relevant to profession.
* Knowledge of the Mental Health NICE Guidelines.
* Range of specialist assessments and interventions to support occupational performance (e.g. ALLENS, Sensory Assessment/Sensory Integration, VdT MOCA).
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.
Name Shelley Evans Job title Service Lead for MH Urgent Care Services Email address shelley.evans@mpft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0300 7907000
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