Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Are you an experienced mental health professional looking to utilise your clinical skills in a different and rewarding environment?

The West Suffolk Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based in Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds, are seeking ambitious and caring Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Mental Health Nurses to join our existing team at an exciting time.

The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team are proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users in West Suffolk 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.

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 to support their recovery.

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. The team requires you to work autonomously whilst maintaining professional standards and fostering good working relationships across teams.

The usual shift pattern is long days, 3-4 shift per week, with 4 days off and we can offer the opportunity to rotate if this is something of particular interest. CRHT delivers patient care twenty-four hours a day. Shift working is in place to ensure this service is delivered.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are 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.

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.

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!

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