Mental Health Practitioner CRHTT
The closing date is 29 March 2026
Job summary
To contribute to ongoing assessment, implementation and evaluation of care needs of a changing caseload of service users within their home environment
To work closely with the inpatient units ensuring the effective transition of care across the acute pathway
Ensuring the regular attendance at ward rounds, professionals' meetings to identify service users who may benefit from the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
Liaise closely with Community Treatment Teams ensuring the safe discharge of service users following a period of treatment with the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
To work as a practitioner, supporting senior members of staff managing a flexible, team-based caseload
To mentor, supervise and teach unqualified staff including students
To participate in the care for a specified group of service users
To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of unqualified staff
To be confident in using social inclusion, person centred and recovery focussed models of care.
Main duties of the job
To support senior staff in the clinical management of a designated group of service users.
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in service users' health
To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these
To identify and provide appropriate intervention and emotional support for service users
To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff; with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery
To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately
To work with service users and carers across a wide age range including 16-18 and persons under 65
To work in flexible ways with service users who may be difficult to engage or demonstrate a degree of diagnostic uncertainty*To undertake direct work with service users and their families, including formulating care plans, crisis management, and advocacy
To be confident in using social inclusion, person centred and recovery focussed models of care.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
16 March 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
348-SAC-10816
Job locations
Antelope House
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Antelope House
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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