Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) in St Leonards-on-Sea. The team provides care and support to clients experiencing mental health crises in their homes, aiming to prevent hospital admissions. You will assess, plan, and implement high-quality care, working with service users, families, and partner agencies. The position involves providing specialist nursing advice, monitoring treatments, and potentially supervising staff and acting as shift coordinator.
Key responsibilities
- Work in partnership with service users with complex health presentations to develop care and recovery plans.
- Be responsible for the assessment, planning, and implementation of top-quality care to service users.
- Provide specialist nursing advice and carry out nursing procedures, monitoring treatment effectiveness.
- Potentially provide clinical supervision to staff and students, including acting as shift co-ordinator.
- Liaise with other services and external agencies to triage referrals and gatekeep inpatient admissions.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge and want to offer the best care in times of Crisis?
Do you want to help shape the future of the CRHT?
We're looking for like-minded people to join us and help provide top quality care to those who need it.
We have an opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or Occupational Therapists (OT) to join the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (CRHT) at Woodlands Centre for Acute Care, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
The CRHT team is a part of acute 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.
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 the
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