Crisis Care Practitioner – 111 Mental Health Option: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job Summary

Is a role where you can provide a safe and calm space for people suffering from mental health crisis appealing to you?

This could be the job for you. We’re looking for talented mental health professionals, including nurses, social workers and occupational therapists to work in our 111 Mental Health Option Crisis Service in Suffolk.

Our vision is to ensure that all service users, carers and professionals have access to a crisis service 24/7 that can provide support, advice and assessment in a compassionate, patient and recovery focused way. We believe that crisis is self-determined by the person or people experiencing the situation and that this requires an empathetic and non-judgmental approach, which holds those experiencing the crisis at the very centre.

Working via telephone conducting assessments across the crisis pathway, our Crisis Care Practitioners are experts in validating, de-escalating crisis and coaching people in distress tolerance and emotional regulation strategies.

Using a range of brief psychological interventions, our Crisis Care Practitioners work within the recovery model of care by empowering patients, carers and families to manage distress and crisis effectively.

You’ll be undertaking clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliance with local policies and procedures with awareness and knowledge of safeguarding of adults and children and positive risk management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Mental Nursing Certificate (RMN) Current Registration on part 3 or part 13 of NMC register. Or Occupational Therapist registration HPC Or Psychological Therapy qualification Or Psychologist with BPS approved post graduate certificate Or Social Workers registered GSCG Or Graduate in relevant mental health degree Or other relevant skills/ qualification as identified in the Job Description

Desirable

  • Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
  • Qualified psychological therapist

Experience

Essential

  • Application of evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.

Desirable

  • Involvement in innovative clinical practice.
  • Experience working within the crisis pathway
  • Experience of working with young people and their families including LD and autism.

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).

Closing Date: 12 August 2025

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.