Senior Mental Health Practitioner Crisis Resolution Home Treatment
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team in Southampton is seeking an enthusiastic Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This role involves supporting individuals with acute mental health needs in the community and collaborating with inpatient wards to reduce hospital stays. You will assess service users in crisis, formulate care plans, deliver high-quality interventions, and coordinate shifts. The team operates a 24-hour service with a flexible shift pattern, including weekend work.
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 andbe 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 userinvolvement in their own care and care plan
- * Commitment to personalised, recovery oriented care
- * Commitment to own continual professional development
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- 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 andbe 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 userinvolvement 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 30 August 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.
Main duties of the job
If you would like to join us we are looking for enthusiastic, grounded, yet innovative mental health practitioners either from a background in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy who are committed to the principles of recovery. The team offers a 24 hour service with the expectation of working a flexible shift pattern, which includes every other weekend.
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 interventions and underta
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