Crisis and Home Treatment Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves triaging and assessing urgent mental health referrals to identify appropriate services for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. The practitioner will conduct telephone triage, provide support and signposting, and perform face-to-face needs assessments and care planning. The position works within a crisis team, potentially with opportunities for cross-cover with the Home Treatment Team, and operates on a 24/7 shift pattern.
Key responsibilities
- Provide a clinical service that is service user focussed.
- Triage all mental health referrals to the Crisis Team to determine priority and appropriate clinical pathway.
- Carry out full assessments of needs, including comprehensive risk assessments.
- Recommend and refer to the most appropriate team/service for treatment/intervention.
- Identify and implement appropriate treatment-based interventions for all service users.
- Act as gatekeeper to informal admissions to hospital.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or OT
- ENB 998 or other NMC approved mentor qualification or mentor qualification appropriate to discipline- or willingness to complete.
- Evidence of post registration training
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Professional experience of working in acute adult mental health
- Experience of MDT working
- Demonstrable post registration experience as an RMN/ SW
- Skills in coordinating and planning inter-agency approaches in mental health care
- Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
- Skills in co-ordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
- An understanding of current mental health issues
- Excellent report-writing skills
- IT skills
- Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team
- Understanding of the CPA process
- Excellent assessment skills, including risk assessment
- Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning
- Experience of Safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Safeguarding training
- DBT skills training
- Non-medical prescribing
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of working with statutory and nonstatutory agencies.
- Experience of working at Band 6 level
- Experience of managing risk Experience of delivering evidence-based treatments.
- Knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework for mental health services, particularly the Mental Health Act
- Knowledge and understanding of the roles of other professionals working within mental health
- Ability to work in a changing environment
- Ability to elaborate on the translation of personal and professional skills into practice
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
Crisis and Home Treatment Practitioner
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
The service triages and assesses all urgent and emergency referrals to identify the most appropriate service to meet individual need when persons are experiencing a mental health crisis. This involves telephone triage, support and signposting and face to face full needs assessment care planning and referring on to relevant services.
The team works closely with the Home Treatment Team, and there may be opportunity for cross cover, but the primary role is within the crisis team.
The team currently consists of Mental Health Nurses, a Team Manager and a Clinical lead. We have in-put form Consultant Psychiatrists and a Psychologist and would welcome Occupational therapy and Social work applicants, with relevant experience and appropriate registration
The team provide a service over a 24/7 period encompassing a varied shift pattern.
Main duties of the job
o To provide a clinical service that is service user focussed.
o To triage all mental health referrals to the Crisis Team to determine the priority for service response and the appropriate clinical pathway.
o To carry out full assessments of needs including comprehensive risk assessments of persons referred or self -referred to the service.
o To recommend and refer, where treatment/in
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