Senior Mental Health Practitioner Crisis Resolution Home Treatment
The closing date is 19 July 2026
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. We also work 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.
We are looking for enthusiastic, grounded, yet innovative mental health practitioners 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 a flexible shift pattern, including every other weekend. As a Senior Practitioner you will assess service users in crisis and require an urgent response, work with them to formulate a collaborative care or safety plan, deliver high‑quality interventions, and undertake shift coordination. You will also liaise effectively with internal and external services, keeping service‑user focus at the heart of clinical decisions.
Job responsibilities
- Assess service users as they present in crisis and require an urgent response.
- Collaborate with users to formulate a safety or care plan to aid recovery and keep them safe.
- Deliver a range of high‑quality interventions and coordinate shifts.
- Maintain robust assessment skills and serve as a role model through excellent communication.
- Liaise effectively with other services, internal and external, retaining service‑user focus at the heart of clinical decisions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist.
- Clinical supervision training.
- Specialty specific Level 3 learning.
- Knowledge of another language.
Experience
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding.
- 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.
- 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.
Additional Criteria
- Confident, respectful, self‑reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative and enthusiastic.
- Able to contribute to team discussion and be 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 user involvement in their own care and care plan.
- Commitment to personalised, recovery‑oriented care.
- Commitment to own continual professional development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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