Crisis and Home Treatment Nurse Practitioner in Sidcup Frognal Avenue inSidcup Frognal Avenue PUBLISHED WED 4 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

Bexley Home Treatment Team is a multidisciplinary team, providing a service over a 24-hour period, seven days a week to individuals in mental health crisis with the principal aim of providing an effective alternative to inpatient care. This involves intensive clinical work over short periods of time to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe early discharge. The team also carries out the following main functions:

o To provide 72 Hour follow-up for individuals who have self-harmed pre-admission and while on the inpatient patient when they have been discharged

oAssessment of urgent referrals from Primary Care Plus (PCP)

oResponding to calls via the Trust's Crisis line

The Home treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the crisis services, Mental Health Liaison and Crisis Therapy Groups (CTG), Liaison team, in-patient, community mental health teams, local authorities and emergency services (GP).

The Home treatment team aim to operate within the standards set out by the Home Treatment Accreditation Service - QN-CRHTT Accreditation

The postholder may be expected to transfer to another CRHTT temporarily or permanently where there is a clear clinical need to do so.

To co-ordinate the activities of the team on a shift basis, accepting and appropriately delegating all referrals for assessment.

To participate, and where required to do so, take a lead in agreed clinical and strategic projects associated with the provision of the assessment service. This will include planning, implementing, reviewing and revising these projects as necessary in line with targets and NSF requirements.

To ensure that systems are in place for the collection of robust data relevant to the activity of the team.

To assist the team manager in identifying and dealing with potential areas/events/situations, which may have an impact on the financial expenditure of the team.

To ensure that staff within the team are aware of how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources.

To take responsibility for ensuring that staff within the team are deployed to meet prioritised needs.

To demonstrate the ability to analyse, respond and lead staff through difficult situations as appropriate.

To work with colleagues to develop and promote the service's philosophy, framework of care delivery and strategic objectives, taking responsibility for specific areas of policy and strategy delivery as required by management.

To ensure that all complaints are addressed effectively according to trust policy.

To demonstrate an understanding of disciplinary and other Human Resource processes.

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To be responsible for the full biopsychosocial assessment of clients presenting with a wide variety of mental health conditions. Following this, the post holder will be responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.

To be accountable for ones own practice and that of junior colleagues for whom one has supervisory responsibility.

To provide a comprehensive consultation - liaison service to teams and individual clinicians within the acute trust (emergency department and general wards), particularly in assisting them to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where patients are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviours.

To be an effective clinical leader and role model, with good delegatory and supervisory abilities.

To identify clinical need, prioritising and deploying resources, within budgetary parameters.

To be an effective communicator, observer & listener.

To maintain patient confidentiality at all times.

To ensure that all organisational, policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to as well as contributing to the development of local ones.

To ensure good teamwork and working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and the public.

To ensure that clinical supervision is used to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.

To ensure that own practice and that of junior staff remains within legal, ethical and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from peers.

To hold a current, valid first level registration with the Nurses & Midwives Council.

To hold a clean current driving licence