Community Mental Health Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams are an integral part of Urgent Care Services providing triage and assessment providing home treatment, gate keeping of hospital beds and providing telephone support to those individuals that are suffering with psychological, emotional and mental health distress. We are an open access service working with the those aged 11 to end of life whom are suffering with a functional illness.

We are now seeking highly motivated and committed band 5 nurses to join us in providing this service and complement our current team of professionals, assisting with the day to day running of the service and ensuring you are professionally accountable and responsible for service users’ care. As the ideal candidate for this post you would be an RMN qualified nurse looking for a new challenge and seeking an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives. We’re looking for candidates with excellent communication skills and a passion for helping those experiencing a mental health crisis. You will have the ability to build relationships with key partner agencies and help us to integrate more effectively with other services, as well as thriving on working in a high pressure situation.

We welcome applications from newly qualified individuals.

Main duties of the job

  • To be a member of a multidisciplinary MHARS team that will provide a 24 hour, 7 days a week service.
  • To participate in the provision of a comprehensive assessment, planning, short term intervention, support and education service to clients referred to the service with a range of psychiatric illnesses and mental health crises.
  • To have face-to-face contact and the provision of telephone advice ensuring that the needs of the service users are met in the most sensitive and appropriate way.
  • To maintain responsibility for a shared caseload of up to 20 to 30 service users.
  • The post holder will receive regular supervision from Band 6 Clinicians and/or the Team Manager.

The team operate a mixed economy shift system allowing staff to choose either a standard shift working pattern (7.5 hour shifts) or long shift working pattern (12 hour shifts). This is negotiated with the team manager with those choosing to work long shifts having to pick up a regular short shift or long shift to make up contracted hours. Nights undertaken are 9.5 hours.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC or Social Worker or Occupational Therapist or awaiting results from University
  • Registered with the HCPC or awaiting results from University

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of recovery approach and social inclusion.
  • Experience in the provision of Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment
  • Experience of collaboration working with other agencies including the voluntary sector.

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Knowledge of current Mental Health Act legislation and Mental Capacity Act.
  • Demonstrable skills in risk assessment and management.
  • Knowledge of the various approaches to mental health assessment.
  • Knowledge of evidence based intervention with clients in an acute phase of mental illness.
  • An understanding of national policy in relation to mental health
  • Knowledge of child care/protection issues.
  • Demonstrated commitment to continuing professional development.

Desirable

  • Ability to work on social factors affecting mental distress eg accommodation, substance misuse, domestic violence, welfare rights.
  • Knowledge of various approaches in the care and treatment of clients with dual disorder (drug and/or alcohol and mental illness).

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).

Closing Date: 11 November 2026

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