Urgent Care Practitioner – Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7PT
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
9 September 2026
9 days left
Job description
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 lookin...
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.
As well as providing specialist nursing advice and carry out nursing procedures, and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in order to progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
You may also be involved in providing clinical supervision to staff and students. This may 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.
There are always opportunities for extra bank work and further experience throughout the Urgent Care Hub within our other services, and we welcome the opportunity to support your career if you are looking to gain added experience from another service area.
We are committed to career development and future aspirations and career goals are discussed openly and supported.
Working in Sussex
- Travel easily between coast and countryside and enjoy the natural beauty the county has to offer. With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, there's always somewhere new to visit
- Embrace the city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes
- As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
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
- Excellent NHS Pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- A 'Golden Hello' or relocation package up to £2000 (see attached documentation for T&C's)
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, 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.
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
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
26 August 2026
Last checked
28 August 2026
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