Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner *3k Welcome Bonus

Job title:

Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner *3k Welcome Bonus

Company

NHS

Job description

OurCrisis Response and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based at Chatterton House, Kings Lynn,are seeking an ambitious and caring Senior Registered Mental Health Practitioner (BAND 6).CRHTT are proactive and highly skilled, supporting service users in West Norfolk, who are presenting in crisis. The CRHTT service is an age inclusive provision covering a diverse and multicultural patient base. We are passionate about providing alternative options to hospital admissions, so you can expect to be undertaking rewarding and highly intensive work.We looking to recruit compassionate, dedicated and conscientious individuals, who want to make a positive difference to adults experiencing mental distress and mental health crisis.The Team is looking for Band 6 practitioners who can expect a range of responsibilities including shift coordinator, triaging, assessments and working in home treatment.Staff provide care, treatment, and assessment to patients both at our base location, in their own homes and other places of safety, getting you out and about seeing patients in a range of community settings.If you enjoy working with high-risk cases, are looking to develop as an autonomous, confident practitioner, then we’d love to hear from you!Main duties of the jobWe are the ‘front-door’ to acute services, providing triage, assessment, intensive support, and alternative to admissionhand in hand with support of families and other third-party providers.The team also works with service users already in hospital to ensure that they can be supported at home at the earliest opportunity.Communication is key, we are currently in the midst of significant positive change and growth within the 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, who can work autonomously whilst maintaining professionalstandards andfostering good working relationships across teams.You must have the ability to clinically lead care delivery and 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 host regular Team reflective practice sessions, as well as clinical and management supervision. CRHT are focussed on continual development and quality improvement of our service provision and have regular interfaces with a range of teams, both internally and externally, including a focus on our patient journey, whilst ensuring the least restrictive intervention, that is tailor made to the patient.About usHere at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.When you join us, you can expect to be supported in building your competence in assessment, there will be a Trust based induction and further local induction process where a core competency framework supports you to develop your assessment skills, using evidence-based practice at its core.DetailsDate posted04 August 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 6Salary£38,682 to £46,580 a year gross per annumContractPermanentWorking patternFull-time, Flexible workingReference number246-WSN7198391Job locationsChatterton HouseGoodwins RoadKings LynnPE30 5PDJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesAre 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, this could be the ideal role for you.Why work for us?As a Trust we have had our challenges, however we 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. The Trust aspire and are continually developing our service provisions to improve our care delivery, whilst we work together as one team, for a Safer, Kinder and Better Trust.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.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!In return for your individual skills and knowledge, we are fully committed to assisting you to meet your professional development needs and enabling you to provide high standards of care, in a supportive environment.For further details regarding this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesAre 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, this could be the ideal role for you.Why work for us?As a Trust we have had our challenges, however we 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. The Trust aspire and are continually developing our service provisions to improve our care delivery, whilst we work together as one team, for a Safer, Kinder and Better Trust.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.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!In return for your individual skills and knowledge, we are fully committed to assisting you to meet your professional development needs and enabling you to provide high standards of care, in a supportive environment.For further details regarding this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobsPerson SpecificationQualificationsEssential

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Desirable

• Good to great management course, or equivalent

ExperienceEssential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience

Desirable

• Experience in supporting service development
• Experience in delivering group based interventions

OtherEssential

• Able to travel independently

Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Desirable

• Good to great management course, or equivalent

ExperienceEssential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience

Desirable

• Experience in supporting service development
• Experience in delivering group based interventions

OtherEssential

• Able to travel independently

Expected salary

£38682 – 46580 per year

Location

King’s Lynn, Norfolk

Job date

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:40:37 GMT

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