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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes weekends and nights)
Job ref
364-A-8364-A
Employer
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Lakes MHU
Town
Colchester
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Practitioner

Band 6

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

  • We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
  • We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

  • We Care
  • We Learn
  • We Empower

Our strategic objectives

  • We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
  • We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
  • We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
  • We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Community Health Services
  • Learning Disabilities Services
  • Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory. 

Job overview

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in 
providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your 
NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and 
evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of 
the Team Leader as per NICE guidance. The team works closely with the 2 other teams 
which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to 
urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the 
community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also 
covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls 
from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of 
the shifts within the Crisis Response Team. 
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, 
carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering 
services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working 
shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a Band 6 Senior Community Nurse with the Crisis Response Team in 
providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic assessments to patients in line with your 
NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and 
evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of 
the Team Leader as per NICE guidance. The team works closely with the 2 other teams 
which form the Urgent Care Pathway – Hospital Liaison and Home First - to respond to 
urgent and emergency mental health crisis. Assessments can be completed within the 
community and ability to drive is essential. The Team have use of a lease car. The team also 
covers the 111 Option 2 telephone contact service and a part of your role will be to take calls 
from service users contacting this service.
As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of 
the shifts within the Crisis Response Team. 
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, 
carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering 
services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working 
shifts where appropriate and operationally required.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note that this role outline serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties and 
responsibilities you may be expected to undertake during the course of your normal duties. It 
is not an exhaustive list and you will therefore be required to undertake other responsibilities 
and duties that are considered to be commensurate with the band.
Core Clinical Function
 Provide comprehensive assessment and care planning in line with the requirements 
of the Mental Health Care Clusters
 Produce accurate and timely documentation on all service users in line with your 
professional code of conduct and Trust policy.
 Triage of referrals received and to ensure a timely response and accurate allocation 
of referrals received according to risks.
 Participate in the planning and ongoing review of service users either awaiting 
assessment or allocation for continuing care to ensure care provided is effective and 
safe
 Provide practical support, advice, signposting and education to service users, carers 
and other disciplines.
 Have an awareness of other statutory and voluntary service provisions to signpost 
service users for appropriate care.
 Responsible for the recording of all patient related activity information onto Paris. 
 Carry out risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service 
user’s environment.
 Report and document incidents as required. 
 Provide education and support to develop service users understanding of mental 
illness.
 Be competent in use of relevant screening and assessment tools. 
 Support the induction and ongoing development of newly qualified nursing staff.
 Participate in audit and research

Person specification

Relevant Degree or Diploma

Essential criteria
  • Achieved Grade
Desirable criteria
  • Achieved Grade

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 2 years post graduate experience
Desirable criteria
  • 1 years post graduate experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDisability confident leaderImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Essex Family Friendly Employers

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Angela Twaites
Job title
Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07583684067
Additional information

My working days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

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