Overview
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust is recruiting an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). The role will play a key part in delivering safe, responsive, and person‑centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises in the community.
Closing date: 17 June 2026.
Responsibilities
* Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
* Lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators and outcomes.
* Demonstrate highly developed mental health nursing skills.
* Provide consultancy within the Trust and externally for partner organisations as an adult mental health professional expert.
* Lead monitoring of performance against Department of Health, CQC and NICE mandatory requirements and regulations.
* Proactively contribute to root‑cause analysis and investigations of incidents across the Trust.
* Work at the forefront of practice innovation, creating precedent, generating monitoring and evaluating practice protocols to advance professional practice.
* Maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority of professional expertise through practice and continual professional development.
* Lead implementation of evidence‑based adult mental health best practice, monitoring and evaluating patient care, and developing clinical pathways to underpin this, including appropriate interventions in community settings.
* Function at an advanced level of practice, operating autonomously to provide expert patient care and develop own and others’ knowledge.
* Work with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking opportunity to consult with patients and carers, formally and informally.
* Provide leadership and development within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and the wider acute speciality.
* Establish systems to ensure practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidence‑based materials and tools that support practice and promote evidence‑based health outcomes.
Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)
* Registered Nurse Mental Health with current NMC registration.
* Non‑medical prescribing qualification (or working towards).
* Evidence of continuing personal learning and development.
Experience (Essential)
* A well‑developed professional portfolio.
* Experience of leadership and change management.
* Experience of working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services.
* Evidence of significant contribution to service developments.
* Experience of providing education to various and multi‑professional groups.
* Evidence of applying research in practice.
* Experience of research, audit and clinical effectiveness.
Knowledge (Essential)
* Strong value base which drives practice.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Leadership and management skills.
* Good communication, both written and verbal.
* Knowledge of the role of partner organisations.
* Understanding of the policy/standards agenda in relation to services and broader policy drivers pertinent to healthcare delivery.
* Knowledge of best practice.
* Ability to work in collaboration with colleagues.
* Ability to work autonomously in taking critical decisions.
* Ability to manage, supervise and support staff.
* Strategic planning.
* Ability to undertake critical analysis of complex policy information and synthesise into an interpretable format.
Specialist / Technical Requirements
* Comprehensive computer skills and proficiency in using the current EPR system.
* Hold an Independent Non‑Medical Prescribing qualification or be working towards it.
Additional Information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check is required under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Compensation
Band 7: £49,387 to £56,515 per annum.
Employer Details
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Crisis Care Centre, Harplands Hospital, Stoke‑on‑Trent, ST4 6TH, United Kingdom.
Employer website: https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/
Contact
Service Manager Aisling Birch
Email: Aisling.Birch@combined.nhs.uk
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