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Nurse Practitioner
The closing date is 17 June 2026
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.
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.
Main duties of the job
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 support individuals 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 autonomously within 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 demonstrate high levels of decision making and clinical judgement.
Job responsibilities
* Provide expert clinical practice and leadership within the All Age Access and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.
* Specifically, lead quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators and outcomes.
* Provide consultancy both within the Trust and externally for partner organisations as an adult mental health professional expert.
* Working with the directorate senior team, take a lead in monitoring performance against the Department of Health, CQC and NICE mandatory requirements and regulations.
* Proactively contribute to the root cause analysis and investigations of incidents across the Trust.
* Work at the forefront of practice innovation, creating precedence, 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 developments.
* Lead the implementation of evidence based adult mental health best practice, monitoring and evaluating patient care and developing clinical pathways to underpin this, including the implementation of appropriate interventions which relate to community settings.
* Function at an advanced level of practice operating in an autonomous manner in order to provide expert patient care, and develop own and others knowledge.
* Work in liaison with colleagues to develop improvement in patient care, taking appropriate 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 that practitioners have access to resources that provide current evidenced based materials and tools that will support practice and promote evidence based health outcomes.
Specialist/technical requirements
The post holder will require comprehensive computer skills and be proficient in using the current EPR system. The post holder will need to hold an Independent Non-Medical Prescribing qualification or be working towards this.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Mental Health with current NMC registration, non medical prescribing qualification, evidence of continuing personal learning and development
Experience
* 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
* 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, an understanding of the policy/standards agenda in relation to services, and an understanding of the 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
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