Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

The closing date is 28 October 2025

Job summary

We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Occupational Therapist (OT) or Social Worker to join to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at MillView Hospital, covering Brighton and Hove.

The CRHT team is a part of urgent care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details)

Main duties of the job

As an Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

You will be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of top-quality care to service users. This will include working alongside service users, carers, families and partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges. You will be providing specialist clinical advice, carrying out clinical procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

You will also be involved in providing clinical supervision to junior staff and students. This will include acting as shift co-ordinator as needed to lead the team on shift, as well as allocating and delegating tasks to colleagues. You will be expected to liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals to the service and gatekeep inpatient admissions. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership skills if you are looking for career progression in the future

About us

We are committed to ensuring that mental health care is co-produced wherever possible and delivered in a person-centred, compassionate, and supportive way.

Mental Healthcare should promote safety and wellbeing while addressing social care needs and ensuring equality and fairness for all. It should be needs-led, outcome-focused, responsive and delivered in a way that empowers people to build on their strengths, promotes recovery, and supports families and carers.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working- no take out, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Your benefits:

Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team
Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
Free parking on-site
Access to a host of discount schemes
A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC
Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
Excellent NHS Pension

Date posted

16 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum / pro rata for part time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

354-AB-20990

Job locations

Mill View Hospital

Nevill Avenue

Hove

BN3 7HY

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will have:

- Professional Registration

- Experience of working in the relevant care group

- Experience of working with people with complex needs

- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

It would also be advantageous if you have:

- Experience of supervising staff

The service operates 7 days a week and there will be an expectation to work weekends and shifts, which would involve early and late shifts.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Urgent Care Practitioner in our team you will have:

- Professional Registration

- Experience of working in the relevant care group

- Experience of working with people with complex needs

- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

It would also be advantageous if you have:

- Experience of supervising staff

The service operates 7 days a week and there will be an expectation to work weekends and shifts, which would involve early and late shifts.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role.
Evidence of continuous professional development

- Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role.
Evidence of continuous professional development

- Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

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 for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).