Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The team provides specialist acute crisis psychiatric interventions to service users in their own homes, aiming to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge. The role involves comprehensive assessments, care planning, and maintaining accurate records. Candidates must be a Registered Professional Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist who has completed their preceptorship.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist acute crisis psychiatric interventions and expertise to service users 24/7 within their home/residence.
- Provide a gatekeeping service to inpatient wards and community teams.
- Facilitate early discharge (Step Down) where appropriate and offer an effective alternative to hospital admission.
- Perform comprehensive assessments of patient nursing needs, planning, implementing, and evaluating care delivery.
- Organise and prioritise own work and, where appropriate, the work of the nursing team on a day-to-day basis.
- Supervise others and participate in their education and development.
Essential criteria
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- Please click onto Apply for this job and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to to join the Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit.
We are looking for candidates who are either a Registered Professional Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who have completed their preceptorship.
Please note it is essential that you have completed your preceptorship.
The Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team provide a service for adults aged 18 and over who, without this service, would require hospital admission to an acute mental health ward, due to mental health crisis which impacts on the persons ability to cope with day-to-day activities.
We work collaboratively with Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers, OTs and other professionals to provide collective support and knowledge.
We understand that you have a life outside of work and therefore offer a range of agile and flexible working opportunities.
The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured
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