# Senior Mental Health Practitioner Crisis Resolution Home Treatment > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner-crisis-resolution-home-treatment/59675677-fc3e-407b-a483-88b1a3b2a800 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner-crisis-resolution-home-treatment/59675677-fc3e-407b-a483-88b1a3b2a800.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Southampton - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 to £48,117 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-07-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-06T14:46:56.260Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9348-26-1364?employerCode=C9348 - **Application URL:** https://southernhealth.tal.net/vx/candidate/apply/11777?instant=apply - **Employer website:** https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 undertaking the role of shift coordination. You will need robust assessment skills to enable the team to deliver high quality crisis care. Excellent communication skills are also essential to enable you to be a role model for others, as well as positively representing the team and the organization as a whole. You must also be able to liaise effectively with other services, both internal and external to The Trust, retaining service user focus at the heart of any clinical decision making to ensure the best outcome. ### About us Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives. Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence ### Details - Date posted: 06 July 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 6 - Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 348-SAC-11777 - Job locations: Antelope House, Brintons Terrace, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0YG, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - 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 **Desirable** - 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse, Social Worker, occupational Therapist - Computer skills - Significant post qualifying experience - Mentorship course - Clinical supervision training **Desirable** - Speciality specific Level 3 learning* - Knowledge of another language ### Additional Criteria **Essential** - 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 - . ## Documents - [EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf (PDF, 1002 KB)](document:2981741) - [B6 practitioner JD_PS_NEW VERSION 25.3.25 (002).docx (3, 151 KB)](document:2981740) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.