Islington CRT, Band 4 Assistant Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic Assistant Practitioner to join the Islington Crisis Resolution Team. You will work with acutely unwell service users, providing intensive crisis assessment, resolution, and home treatment. The team operates 24/7, offering an alternative to hospital admission and supporting social inclusion. Responsibilities include face-to-face interventions, telephone support, and lone working.
Essential criteria
- Worked in Ward or Crisis Team
Desirable criteria
- Other Mental Health Experience
- DBT or other similar training / experience
- Risk Assessment
- Demonstrate good understanding of risk
- Good understanding of Mental Health Diagnosis and Mental Health Act
- Team Work
- Evidence of good Team Work and Lone Working
- Acute Mental Health Experience
- Worked in Ward or Crisis Team
- Other Mental Health Experience
- DBT or other similar training / experience
- Risk Assessment
- Demonstrate good understanding of risk
- Good understanding of Mental Health Diagnosis and Mental Health Act
- Team Work
- Evidence of good Team Work and Lone Working
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,186 – £37,389 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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North London NHS Foundation Trust
Islington CRT, Band 4 Assistant Practitioner
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and passionate individual?Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, ever changing mental health service?
Would you like to enhance your clinical decision-making and assessment skills and confidence in managing numerous crisis presentations both over the telephone and face to face?
If so this could be the job for you!
We have a recent and exciting opportunity to appoint Assistant Practitioners in the Islington Crisis Resolution Team and are looking for enthusiastic, committed individuals who enjoy working with acutely unwell service users with a broad range of mental health and social issues.
Covering the central London Borough of Camden & Islington, the team offers an intensive crisis assessment, resolution and home treatment service providing mental health crisis care to our local residents age 18 and upwards. Crisis home treatment promotes social inclusion and also supports the social network in caring for the individual in the least restrictive environment. The Crisis Team acts as an alternative to hospital admission. In order to fulfill this role, the team provides a fully operational 24 hour service, 365 days per year.
Main duties of the job
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