Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

Crisis and Home Treatment Practitioner

The closing date is 12 October 2025

Job summary

37.5 hours/week Shift pattern to include on-calls and weekends

Do you have a passion for improving the lives young people? Are you able to provide excellent care to young people experiencing a mental health crisis? do you have experience in the assessment of risk and formulating safety plans? do you enjoy the challenges of supporting young people to be managed at home as an alternative to an inpatient hospital admission? We are looking for experienced staff to join Navigo CAMHS crisis and home treatment team. The team provide a 24hr, 365-day including the occasional weekend and on call, generous enhancements are paid for these. We will ensure you are provided with suitable training and experience opportunities that will allow you to thrive within our friendly team.

Interviews to be held on 22/10/2025.

Please note the expected start date for this position is not before 05/01/2026.

Main duties of the job

This role will require you to provide care to young people experiencing a mental health crisis. We are a 24hr, 365-day service working within a shift system including the occasional weekend and on call, generous enhancements are paid for these. Providing assessment of risk and formulating safety plans and care plans with children, young people and their families. Supporting young people to remain at home as an alternative to an inpatient hospital admission.

Utilise excellent clinical skills and judgement to assess individual needs and provide appropriate interventions to manage crisis periods. Work closely with families, carers and partner agencies to collaboratively care plan for any further interventions that may be required. This role will include team working and autonomous practice with responsibility for caseload management from first contact to discharge. Successful applicant will have the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge from all areas of the wider CAMHS service.

About us

Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Come and Join us !

Please note: Whilst we value all applications, if we believe an application to be AI generated, we will use a checking tool and may reject any application that has been automatically generated.

Should you require any assistance in completing this application due to a disability or other needs please contact navigo.recruitment@nhs.net

Date posted

17 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B9816-533

Job locations

Freshney Green Primary Care Centre

Sorrel Road

Grimsby

DN34 4GB

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a 24/7, 365 day crisis and intensive home treatment service to children and young people and families who are presenting with acute mental health or emotional disturbance to a degree where the risk they pose indicates that an inpatient admission may be required. This includes those presenting with a significant eating disorder. In addition to this, the service would respond to mental health crises in children and young people out of office hours

Provide Care Co-ordination, needs assessment and risk assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence-based care to a defined group of patients and their families/carers within the service catchment area.

To provide an intensive home treatment service to prevent admission to inpatient beds and to facilitate early discharge.

To provide professional advice and support to other teams, agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To provide clinical and managerial supervision

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools

Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota including on-call duties, out of hours

Act as Care Coordinator, as required

Participate in the On-Call rota on a regular basis

Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis

Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.

Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children's services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies

Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.

Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children/young people and families/carers.

Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.

Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.

Adhere to Navigo Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.

Develop Band 5 staff and provide supervision/line management on all of the above.

Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.

Participate in management and clinical supervision.

Actively contribute to the ongoing development of clinical practice within the team.

Actively participate in the delivery of training opportunities for staff and students.

To be able to travel independently and work flexibly.

Manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with, and in order to contribute towards the attainment of, the Service / Navigo productivity requirements including waiting times.

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.