Mental Health Practitioner (CRHT Derby City)

DiabloRosso; Derby; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization as a Mental Health Practitioner in Derby, working within a collaborative team to provide high-quality crisis intervention for adults experiencing mental health challenges. You will be essential to delivering compassionate care while shaping a positive patient experience based on NHS values.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave, increasing with service

Generous NHS pension scheme

Health service discounts and online benefits

Free confidential employee assistance program

Structured learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered or recently qualified MH Nurse/Social Worker/OT with relevant professional registration.
• Keen and compassionate mental health practitioner with working knowledge in mental health settings.
• Experience in crisis work and delivering effective interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 crisis and resolution home treatment for adults in mental health crises.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure excellent patient care.
• Promote innovative practices and conduct assessments to inform treatment.

Skills

Compassion

Communication

Mental Health Knowledge

Education

MH Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist qualification

Professional registration with NMC/HCPC/Social Work England

Job description

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• A registered or recently qualified MH Nurse/Social Worker or OT, that holds the relevant professional registration?
• A keen, compassionate, dynamic mental health practitioner with knowledge of working within mental health settings?
• Passionate about crisis work and ensuring safe and effective interventions are delivered to service users, their families and other professionals?
• A good communicator who strives to ensure patients receive the highest standard of care?
• A visible role model that echoes the values of the Trust and the vision of our services - to make a positive difference in people's lives by improving health and wellbeing?
  
  

Job Summary

Are you ...

• A registered or recently qualified MH Nurse/Social Worker or OT, that holds the relevant professional registration?
• A keen, compassionate, dynamic mental health practitioner with knowledge of working within mental health settings?
• Passionate about crisis work and ensuring safe and effective interventions are delivered to service users, their families and other professionals?
• A good communicator who strives to ensure patients receive the highest standard of care?
• A visible role model that echoes the values of the Trust and the vision of our services - to make a positive difference in people's lives by improving health and wellbeing?
  
  

Would you like to work in Derbyshire?

We Very Much Look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

You will be a member of a collaborative, well-established, progressively developing service within Derbyshire, providing a 24/7 crisis and resolution home treatment for all adults, aged between 18 and 65, who require a clinical consultation for a mental health crisis.

The team consists of a variety of workers from multi-disciplinary backgrounds including nurses, medics, occupational therapists, social workers, research assistant, pharmacy and psychology who work alongside each other to ensure excellent care is given to all who come into contact with the service.

You will promote a dynamic and innovative way of working, providing an expert led triage function based on a collaborative referral process inclusive of a prompt and timely response which leads onto assessment and home treatment functions as and when clinically necessary and/or discussion around most appropriate needs for a person.

About Us

DHcFT is an NHS Trust that strives for innovation and improvement for the service and individuals that work within it.

Our Vision is to make a positive difference in people's lives by improving health and wellbeing.

Our objectives are to provide great care, be a great place to work and best use of money.

Our values of People first, Respect, Honesty and Do your best are why our workforce chose to work for the NHS & DHcFT.

Here are just some of the benefits of working for DHCFT:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities
  
  

Details

Date posted

20 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

383-ACA-5846-25

Job locations

Albany House, Kingsway Hospital

Kingsway

Derby

DE22 3LZ

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account.

As a Band 5 Registered Practitioner, the post holder will be consolidating pre-registration education and developing enhanced knowledge and skills within the patient pathway, and contributing to evidence-based professional practice.

The post holder will be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe, responsive and high quality care throughout the twenty-four hour period.

The post holder will present a positive, professional image to service users, carers and the community as a whole.

You will have responsibility of supervision for assistant practitioners relevant to your profession and sphere of knowledge.

As a member of the Crisis Resolution, Home Treatment Team you will be expected to adopt the philosophy of the service and provide flexible, responsive, proactive and interactive assessment, care and management to individuals experiencing early signs of relapse or new acute phase mental health problems. All interventions will be short term; solution- focused and build on maintaining the safety, well being and empowerment of the service user and their Carers / family during this period.

The team will provide a proven research based alternative to hospital admission, and where admission is required will act as gatekeeper to the admission and will facilitate early discharge.

The post holder will be able to sustain a respectful, consistent and reliable therapeutic relationship with service users that enhance their ability to build social networks and work in partnership with Housing Association, Mental Health Teams, Support Networks, Primary Health Care Teams and other Statutory, Voluntary and Independent agencies, ensuring social inclusion for service users.

It is essential that you, as the post holder, will embed Trust values in care delivery services, as this is necessary to achieve our ambition as being one of the top five providers of health care within the country.

Our Trust vision is aspirational, yet realistic, and is based on a thorough understanding, of our strengths and weaknesses.

We put our patients at the centre of everything we do

We focus on our people

We involve our people in making decisions

We deliver excellence

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account.

As a Band 5 Registered Practitioner, the post holder will be consolidating pre-registration education and developing enhanced knowledge and skills within the patient pathway, and contributing to evidence-based professional practice.

The post holder will be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe, responsive and high quality care throughout the twenty-four hour period.

The post holder will present a positive, professional image to service users, carers and the community as a whole.

You will have responsibility of supervision for assistant practitioners relevant to your profession and sphere of knowledge.

As a member of the Crisis Resolution, Home Treatment Team you will be expected to adopt the philosophy of the service and provide flexible, responsive, proactive and interactive assessment, care and management to individuals experiencing early signs of relapse or new acute phase mental health problems. All interventions will be short term; solution- focused and build on maintaining the safety, well being and empowerment of the service user and their Carers / family during this period.

The team will provide a proven research based alternative to hospital admission, and where admission is required will act as gatekeeper to the admission and will facilitate early discharge.

The post holder will be able to sustain a respectful, consistent and reliable therapeutic relationship with service users that enhance their ability to build social networks and work in partnership with Housing Association, Mental Health Teams, Support Networks, Primary Health Care Teams and other Statutory, Voluntary and Independent agencies, ensuring social inclusion for service users.

It is essential that you, as the post holder, will embed Trust values in care delivery services, as this is necessary to achieve our ambition as being one of the top five providers of health care within the country.

Our Trust vision is aspirational, yet realistic, and is based on a thorough understanding, of our strengths and weaknesses.

We put our patients at the centre of everything we do

We focus on our people

We involve our people in making decisions

We deliver excellence

Person Specification

Essential

Experience and Skills

• Experience of working within mental health
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
  
  

Desirable

• Experience and skills in acute mental care or assessment services
  
  

Essential

Qualifications and Training

• Registration with the relevant professional body, eg NMC, HCPC, Social Work England - Nurse, OT or Social Worker
  
  

Desirable

• Evidence of specialist training within mental health services
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• Registration with the relevant professional body, eg NMC, HCPC, Social Work England - Nurse, OT or Social Worker
  
  

Desirable

• Evidence of specialist training within mental health services
  
  

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Albany House, Kingsway Hospital

Kingsway

Derby

DE22 3LZ

Employer's website

http://www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Albany House, Kingsway Hospital

Kingsway

Derby

DE22 3LZ

Employer's website

http://www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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