Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Suffolk CRHTT are now under new operational Leadership and line Management making it an exciting time to join the team. Are you an experienced mental health professional looking to utilise your clinical skills in a different setting? The CRHT teams areseeking Senior Crisis Care Practitioners to join us.

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse? Social Worker or OT? Are you looking for a challenge and do you want to make a difference to the people that we care for? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a role suited to you.

The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team are looking to recruit compassionate, dedicated, and conscientious individuals who want to make a positive difference to adults experiencing mental distress and mental health crisis. CHRT are looking for band 6 Practitioners who are positive change agents to lead a Transformation agenda across the team.

This role is to work across the crisis support pathway based predominantly at Wedgwood, West Suffolk Hospital.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team providing care, treatment, and assessment to patients both at base and in their own homes., The CRHT team are very proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in West Suffolk who present in crisis and persons needing intensive support to avoid hospital admission.

We are - the 'front-door' to acute services, providing triage, assessment, intensive support, and alternative to admissionhand in hand with support of families and 3rdparty providers.

The staffing teams also works with service users already in hospital to ensure that they can be supported at home at the earliest opportunity to support their recovery.

CRHT delivers patient care twenty-four hours a day. Shift working is in place to ensure this service is delivered.

There is an expectation thatyou will have the ability to clinically lead care delivery and will be proficient in clinical care including care/discharge planning, risk assessment, admission prevention, environmental health & safety, Mental Health Act work and physical health care.

We are looking for professionals who want to be involved in assessments and home treatment for people in crisis. CRHT is an age inclusive service.

Why work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Communication is key, we are currently in the midst of significant positive change and growth within the CHRT team. We are therefore looking for someone who can communicate in a professional manner with a wide spectrum of people to achieve the best outcome for our service users and their families/supporters.

We are looking for someone who has exceptional complex decision making skills. CRHTT requires you to work autonomously whilst maintaining professional standards, and fostering good working relationships across teams.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension


• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes


• career progression


• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)


• staff physio service


• NHS discounts and many more.