Mental Health Practitioner - East Home Treatment Team

Job summary

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality mental health care in the community? Our Home Treatment Team (HTT) is expanding, and we are looking for skilled and compassionate Mental Health Practitioners to join our service.

HTT provides intensive support to adults of working age experiencing acute mental health crises. Our focus is on helping individuals remain safely at home, avoiding hospital admission wherever possible, and supporting those recently discharged to minimise inpatient stays. We work collaboratively with individuals, carers, and wider services to offer responsive, person-centred crisis intervention across Cornwall.

The team is currently undergoing significant investment to strengthen our service and respond to the evolving needs of our communities. This includes increasing clinical staffing to support caseload demand and contributing to MDT caseload planning and collaborative care.

We welcome applications from:

• Registered Mental Health Nurses
• Social Workers
• Occupational Therapists

If you're committed to compassionate crisis care, enjoy working within a dynamic MDT, and want to be part of a service that is developing and growing, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Using the whole team approach The Home Treatment Team (incorporating the Crisis Hub), operates a 24 hour, 7 days a week service. Providing urgent clinical assessment for clients in immediate crisis where their needs are best met away from physical health setting (A&E). A home treatment element of client care, engage with a defined client group presenting with acute mental health distress/needs, who have agreed to have their treatment within the community rather than within a hospital setting.

Using evidence-based practice provide assessment and interventions identified that promotes the engagement of the client in treatment, to assist them into recovery.

Share in the clinical management of a defined caseload and develop an interface with other services and agencies so that service users are offered focused and coordinated packages of care which are appropriate to their needs.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.