Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team CPN

Job summary

Band 6 - Community Psychiatric Nurse, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT)

We are looking for experienced mental health nurse to join our busy and dynamic Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based in Hemel Hempstead.

You will be:

• An experienced clinician working with service users at various phases of their mental health.
• Passionate about making a difference for individuals and their carer's during their personal journey.
• Ambitious to work within this challenging role, in a challenging environment, with real scope to develop and influence practice.

Main duties of the job

The role:

• Providing urgent assessments to those considered to have acute mental health concerns and to robust home treatment options as an alternative to hospital admission.
• A role that is varied and challenging, offering an opportunity to work in a variety of settings, with people with a variety of mental health needs.

• As gatekeepers for hospital admission, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and effective treatment in the community, and facilitate early discharges from the acute inpatient units.
• Working collaboratively with our service users, their carer's and our colleagues to positively manage risk in the acute care pathway, whilst enabling and empowering an individuals' recovery journey.

The Team:

• Exceptional service in an organisation with big ambitions.
• We are a team looking for enthusiastic clinicians that are positive about leading future change and development, to ensure the highest standards of care are available to our service users.
• As a University Trust, we have close links to the University of Hertfordshire, and our team have optimised this opportunity in providing excellent learning and development opportunities to our staff.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on...

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Pauls

Slippers Hill

Hemel Hempstead

HP2 5XY

Employer's website

https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Pauls

Slippers Hill

Hemel Hempstead

HP2 5XY

Employer's website

https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

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