Job overview

Our Crisis 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 job

We are the ‘front-door’ to acute services, providing triage, assessment, intensive support, and alternative to admission hand 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 professional standards and fostering 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.

Working for our organisation

Here 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.