Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
First Responder
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Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker passionate about making a difference in mental health crisis care?
Join our First Response Team at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust!
You’ll provide high-quality, evidence-based interventions, risk and safety management, and safeguarding for patients in crisis. Working collaboratively with allied health professionals, you’ll empower patients and carers, champion dignity and choice, and support recovery-focused care.
Closing Date: 20th October 2026
Shortlisting Date: 22nd October 2026
Interview Date: TBC
Responsibilities
- To provide care and interventions, risk and safety management, and safeguarding of patients involved with the First Response Service.
- To engage in regular supervision with the Team Manager/Advanced Nurse Practitioner.
- Discuss, reflect, and find solutions to challenges experienced in the role.
- To deliver a high standard and quality service which enables patients to be supported throughout their care pathway while promoting independence and protecting choice, dignity, privacy, and safety.
- To work in support of other allied health care professionals in the assessment, planning, and evaluation of care and treatment.
- To communicate effectively at all times with other services of the Care Trust, other health care professionals, and with the patient, family, carers/visitors to ensure holistic care is delivered.
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Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
- We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
- We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs.
- We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
- Increase mileage rates for > 4500.
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
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We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Iskander Rashid
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: iskander.rashid@bdct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07739627886
OR
- Name: Faye Pilling
- Email address: Faye.pilling@bdct.nhs.uk
- Job title: Clinical Manager
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