Senior Mental Health Practitioner Crisis Resolution Home Treatment
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team in Southampton. You will assess service users in crisis, formulate collaborative care plans, and deliver high-quality interventions. The position involves shift coordination and requires robust assessment and excellent communication skills to liaise with various services and represent the team.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
- Computer skills
- Significant post qualifying experience
- Mentorship course
- Clinical supervision training
Desirable criteria
- Speciality specific Level 3 learning
- Knowledge of another language
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
- Good facilitation skills
- Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy)
- Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- Ability to motivate service users
- Ability to work autonomously
- Provide clinical supervision
- Experience of mentorship in practice
- Working knowledge of the application of the appropriate professional Code of Conduct
- Management of aggression and manual handling training
- Able to co-facilitate group work
- Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- Evidence of experience in education of nurses and
- /or multi-professional groups
- Additional Criteria
- Confident, respectful, self-reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative and enthusiastic
- * Able to contribute to team discussion and be respectful of others' views.
- * Honest and trustworthy
- * Aware of personal and professional boundaries
- * Respect for service users and their carers
- * An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care and care plan
- * Commitment to personalised, recovery oriented care
- * Commitment to own continual professional development
- Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
- Computer skills
- Significant post qualifying experience
- Mentorship course
- Clinical supervision training
- Speciality specific Level 3 learning
- Knowledge of another language
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
- Good facilitation skills
- Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy)
- Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- Ability to motivate service users
- Ability to work autonomously
- Provide clinical supervision
- Experience of mentorship in practice
- Working knowledge of the application of the appropriate professional Code of Conduct
- Management of aggression and manual handling training
- Able to co-facilitate group work
- Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills
- Evidence of experience in education of nurses and
- /or multi-professional groups
- Additional Criteria
- Confident, respectful, self-reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative and enthusiastic
- * Able to contribute to team discussion and be respectful of others' views.
- * Honest and trustworthy
- * Aware of personal and professional boundaries
- * Respect for service users and their carers
- * An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care and care plan
- * Commitment to personalised, recovery oriented care
- * Commitment to own continual professional development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner Crisis Resolution Home Treatment
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team in Southampton are truly multidisciplinary with practitioners from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
As a team, we support individuals with acute mental health needs requiring intensive input to remain in the community. The team also works collaboratively with our colleagues on the wards at Antelope House to help reduce the amount of time patients remain in hospital by offering support via hospital at home.
Our service provides a variety or clinical interventions to collaboratively tailor our care plans to each individual service user. These include psychological interventions, medication support, prescribing, access to group work and cares support.
This can be offered as either an internal staff secondment for current employees of HIOWH NHS FT or as a fixed term contract for external trust staff
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Practitioner in the team you will have a key function in assessing service users as they present in crisis and require an urgent response. Working with them to formulate a collaborative care or safety plan to aid there recovery and keep them safe. You will be integral to delivering a range of high quality inte
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