Senior Crisis Care Nurse | West London NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | SOUTHALL, UB1 3EU |
| Company: | West London Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7272421/222-LS-AMHS-319 |
Summary
We currently have a 12-month secondment opportunity for a Senior Practitioner (Band 7) in our Crisis, Assessment & Treatment Team in Ealing.
As a Senior Practitioner, you will gain a variety of experience as a key member of the community healthcare team and be part of a multi-disciplinary service that other teams call on for help. Working in this service places you on the frontline of community mental health service and will enable you to respond to a variety of clinical needs at short notice.
Our goal is to develop highly motivated, professional staff who will work in partnership with patients. As a service we want to promote and encourage positive community relationships. We believe in embracing the expertise of our staff and making a difference to the lives of our patients.
This leadership role in CATT consists of assessments and also brief home-based treatment to people with mental health problems at risk of admission to hospital.
As a member of CATT, you will work closely with local services Single Point of Access who provide triage for every new referral to the service.
The post holder will work within a 24 hour rota system –- ensuring that a comprehensive service is provided to patients 365 days a year, an excellent interface with the Single Point of Access and other significant interfaces is maintained and robust gatekeeping at all times.
The team is fast paced and outcome focussed so a ‘can do’ attitude and a willingness to get stuck in are a must.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, co-ordination and the delivery of a high quality mental health service for patients under the care of CATT who required assessment by secondary mental health services for pathway planning, crisis intervention in the community, or gate keeping for the inpatient wards and community recovery house with the emphasis for potential providing home treatment.
The post holder will be involved in the on-going development of services, to ensure that the most relevant care pathway and care plan is devised to provide access to urgent and crisis care. They will be active in the promotion and use of evidence-based practice through the provision of clinical advice and support; acting as a role model; and providing education and training where appropriate.
They will liaise closely with carers, both statutory and non-statutory services, emergency services, and 3rd sector services. They will liaise closely with local services Single Point of Access providing rapid response to mental health crisis situations where necessary and appropriate to decrease the number of unnecessary presentations to A&E.
The post holder will also deliver supervision for junior colleagues. To work within a 24 hour 7 day a week rota system, ensuring that a comprehensive service is provided to patients and robust gatekeeping is maintained.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Ealing, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Key Result Areas & Performance:
1. To establish and maintain communication, with various individuals and groups of service users, carers and staff on complex potentially stressful topics in a range of situations.
2. To develop knowledge and practice in an area of work.
3. To promote best practice in health, safety and security.
4. To contribute to the development of services.
5. To improve quality.
6. To enable people to exercise their rights and promote their equality and diversity.
7. To assess people’s care needs when those needs are complex across their caseload.
8. To plan, deliver and evaluate care programmes to address people’s complex and changing needs.
9. To develop, sustain and evaluate partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies.
10. To lead in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice.
11. To allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess the work of groups and individuals.
12. To maintain and support the efficient use of physical and/or financial resources.
For a full breakdown, please view and read the attached Candidate Pack.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Jun 2025