Mental Health Practitioner - HTT/Crisis Hub/Mental Health Connect

Job overview

Are you looking for a role where you can make a meaningful impact every day, using your skills, experience, and compassion to support people in crisis?

Imagine living in Cornwall — a county renowned for its stunning natural beauty, with rugged coastlines, picturesque countryside, and some of the best beaches in the UK.  With millions of visitors each year, this could be your opportunity to call Cornwall home and contribute to the wellbeing of our community.

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, we are dedicated to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing. Our aim is to draw on our expertise and partnerships to provide safe, high-quality services focused on recovery. Our Home Treatment and Crisis teams play a vital role in the acute care pathway for individuals experiencing mental health challenges, and we are making significant investments to enhance these services. Your skills and passion could be exactly what we need to grow our teams.

This is an exciting time to join us as we expand and develop our services to deliver top-quality mental health care for those in crisis. We are a forward-thinking and innovative team currently working towards QN-CRHTT accreditation, and we welcome your experience and energy as we continue this journey..

Main duties of the job

Our Mental Health Practitioners will work as part of an established integrated multi-disciplinary Home Treatment Team, Mental Health Connect line and Crisis Hub.

The team promotes a dynamic and innovative way of working, triaging and responding to mental health crisis calls and referrals, providing interventions, support, guidance and signposting. The service further delivers timely and responsive face to face assessments where required.

We welcome applications from nurses, occupational therapists and social workers. This team is made up of a Psychiatrist, Nurses, Occupational Therapist,  Approved Mental Health Practitioners, Social Workers, CAPS, Wellbeing Coaches and Support Time Recovery Workers with the support of an admin team and psychologists.

To build and broaden your experience whilst adding variety to the post, the successful candidate/s will rotate between working in Home Treatment Team, the Crisis Hub and the Mental Health Connect Helpline.

This is a full-time post, working 13 long days/nights over a 4 week period.

We are a forward thinking and innovative team and are presently working towards QN-CRHTT accreditation. If you want to work in this dynamic and progressive team, helping those in crisis please follow the link to apply now!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.