# Senior Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/fc42b83c-4180-4e0d-9908-77f6d33af84e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/fc42b83c-4180-4e0d-9908-77f6d33af84e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cambridge - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work to cover opening hours of 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week including Bank Holidays) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-08T08:15:21.309Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/Cambridgeshire_Peterborough_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_health_crisis_resolution/Mental_health_crisis_resolution-v8010935 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8010935?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older adults is a well-established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based at Cavell Centre, Peterborough. The team offer intensive support and treatment at home, and in care homes, for older adults with mental health challenges, including the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The service we offer includes: Crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from mental health hospital. Dementia Intensive Support which offers a practical and a psycho-educational approach to care within patients' homes and care homes. We are strong, passionate, and a fun-loving team with a wealth of clinical experience and knowledge and are looking for a person to join us who will have the following attributes: A similar passion for working with older people. A desire to develop and enhance existing skills and knowledge. Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in very busy team. Experience in carrying out Clinical assessment including robust risk assessments. A strong team-player with a great sense of humour! Motivated by a desire to make a difference. Able to contribute to team meetings and offer a lead role within the teams ### Main duties of the job - The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older people to provide a mental health service seven days a week, within a community setting, by providing a psychosocial assessment to those who present with a range of mental health problems. - To work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment. - To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis. - To provide assessment to those at risk of being admitted to hospital and provide care, support and treatment within a community setting or facilitate admission to hospital and promote rapid discharge. - To provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. - To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs. - To provide a crisis and home treatment service to patients, which incorporates dementia intensive support. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information and detail. - Screen referral to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely - Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment. - Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures. - Undertake risk management; practising safely and accordingly to individual service user needs. - Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice. - Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients. - Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner. - Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment. *DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website ## Job Details Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older adults is a well-established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based at Cavell Centre, Peterborough. The team offer intensive support and treatment at home, and in care homes, for older adults with mental health challenges, including the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The service we offer includes: Crisis intervention, intensive treatment, support, risk assessment and management to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from mental health hospital. Dementia Intensive Support which offers a practical and a psycho-educational approach to care within patients' homes and care homes. We are strong, passionate, and a fun-loving team with a wealth of clinical experience and knowledge and are looking for a person to join us who will have the following attributes: A similar passion for working with older people. A desire to develop and enhance existing skills and knowledge. Drive and motivation whilst working under pressure in very busy team. Experience in carrying out Clinical assessment including robust risk assessments. A strong team-player with a great sense of humour! Motivated by a desire to make a difference. Able to contribute to team meetings and offer a lead role within the teams ## Job Description The post holder will work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for older people to provide a mental health service seven days a week, within a community setting, by providing a psychosocial assessment to those who present with a range of mental health problems. To work in partnership with service users and carers to provide treatment within the least restrictive environment. To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis. To provide assessment to those at risk of being admitted to hospital and provide care, support and treatment within a community setting or facilitate admission to hospital and promote rapid discharge. To provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for people presenting in mental health crisis. To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs. To provide a crisis and home treatment service to patients, which incorporates dementia intensive support. ## Responsibilities Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information and detail. Screen referral to the service and prioritise referrals effectively and safely Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment. Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures. Undertake risk management; practising safely and accordingly to individual service user needs. Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice. Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients. Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner. Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers, and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment. *DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Mental health care/treatment relevant to service. - Working with people presenting with complex mental health needs. - Experience of working as part of a team. **Desirable** - Experience of developing service user and carer involvement - Experience relating to specialism - Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff ### Knowledge and skills **Essential** - Assessing, formulating, and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress - Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning - Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS - Evidenced based clinical interventions relevant to the service - Models of care and treatment relevant to working with older people - Sound knowledge of Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Act, Children’s Act, Equality Act 2010, Health & Safety Act and the Data Protection Act **Desirable** - Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis - Evidence of ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment - SystmOne - Relevant specialist clinical courses/training ### Physical Requirements **Essential** - Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential. ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - Mental Health Nurse, Social Work or Occupational Therapy Qualification - Current NMC/HCPC/Social work Registration. **Desirable** - Approved Mental Health Practitioner - Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience ## Documents - [cpft values (pdf, 114.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1743) - [cpft benefits (pdf, 74.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2967) - [cpft accommodation (pdf, 296.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2805) - [cpft mindful employers (pdf, 51.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1744) - [employee probation period guidance (pdf, 177.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3046) - [senior mental health practitioner jdps b6 (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10296513) ## 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.