Senior Mental Health Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Older People's Crisis and Home Treatment Team. They are a dynamic and busy team dedicated to providing high quality, person centred care in either the community or inpatient settings.

Please note the expected start date for this position is not before 05/01/2026.

Overview

The Older Peoples Crisis and Home Treatment Team is part of the Acute Mental Health Service and ensures effective bed management (including the gatekeeping) of all Older Peoples acute beds. The Post Holder will be responsible for the assessment, implementation and planning of care for the service users who are referred to the service.

About us

Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and wellbeing, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it. We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference. Come and Join us!

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Job responsibilities

1. Process referrals, prioritise, risk management, risk assessment of clients who are in crisis and may be displaying high risk behaviours.
2. The Post Holder will be the first line contact for all mental health at all times to the general Trust and primary care via the Single Point of Access (SPA).
3. The Post Holder will be responsible for defining the level of acute mental health crisis and the use of resources, including the decision to admit a person to either the acute inpatient beds or Sussex house crisis beds, processing of general practitioner referrals and urgent Acute Mental Health and Memory Service referrals.
4. The Post Holder will have to have an understanding of the relevant policies and their application to related face to face physical aggression and associated actions, e.g., COSHH, Infection Control, exposure to body fluids. Exposure to both verbal and physical aggression.
5. The Post Holder will be expected to professionally contribute and/or lead and manage serious untoward incidents, challenging behaviours, ensuring all parties are debriefed and supported.
6. The post holder will be expected to be involved in and implement new and revised policies within their own sphere of work.
7. Will offer clinical supervision to junior staff.

Person Specification Knowledge

• Knowledge of issues involved in the treatment of mental illness for older people and relapse prevention
• Broad knowledge of risk assessments
• Knowledge of the principles of nurse prescribing and the use of service users group directives/protocols
• Can demonstrate experience in audit and research

Qualifications

• A current professional qualification (RMN, Social worker, Occupational Therapy)
• Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership in a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Evidence of post graduate training / studies
• Post qualification award in health/social care at degree or equivalent level
• D32/33 or ENB998 (equivalent)
• Clinical Supervision Training
• Nurse prescribing
• AMHPs trained/willingness to undertake training

Additional Criteria

• Skills
• Proven and advanced skills in the following areas:
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Approaches to risk assessment
• Communication and liaison with a range of others
• Management and change management
• Working at a fast pace
• Team Worker
• Determination
• Flexibility
• Positive attitude to change
• Able to work across organisational boundaries
• Interests and Motivation
• Strong team player
• Self-motivated
• Able to use initiative
• Committed to developing and improving mental health services
• Evidence of a commitment to user/carer involvement

Experience

• Three years post-registration, 1 year of which at a senior level
• Experience of working with clients with mental health problems of a severe and enduring nature
• Knowledge of relapse prevention
• IT Literacy
• Psychosocial interventions
• Use of clinical assessment measures
• First Aid training
• Leadership
• Working with older people with mental health problems

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.

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year, pay dependant on experience.