Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment (CRHT) Team across Norfolk & Waveney are seeking dedicated Senior Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join their existing team.

We have opportunities throughout our services, and want to hear from passionate individuals who share our values.

We are confident that being part of CRHT would enable you to be the Registered Mental Health Nurse you trained, and would like, to be.  Joining our team will offer you the time and facilities to make a difference.

Ideally you’ll have experience and skills in working within the community. Our dedicated team is compassionate and responsive. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice, therapeutic skills and support learning and development of staff.

Nursing has never been more in the public eye and now more than ever our profession needs to adapt and change to meet the changing needs of our patients and the evolving health and social care integrated systems.

As a nursing workforce, we need to build upon and diversify our compassionate and inclusive leadership when delivering high quality care and diversify into new roles.

If you’d like the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, intriguing role then we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Within CRHT, we recognise that nursing staff make up one of the largest proportion of our workforce and we value the expertise and professionalism that you will bring.

As a registered practitioner within CRHT you will:

Managing and assessing risk is a large part of our role and as a team we robustly make decisions in complete collaboration with all systems.

As part of this team, responsibilities would include undertaking assessments , working collaboratively with families and other supporting agencies to manage needs, as well as holding a caseload and undertaking duty.

You can expect regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development, you’ll be provided with a full induction program and access to extensive training and career development.

We are seeking a warm, compassionate and needs-led approach with our service users, their families and their network.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• 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.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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For informal discussions or observational visits to the team please contact CRHT Acting Manager, Louisa Marshall [email protected]

* Previous applicants need not apply *