Mental Health Practitioner - West Home Treatment Team
Band 6
Main area Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
37.5 hours per week (Long Day shifts including Night Shift)
Job ref 201-26-103-C
Site Longreach House Town Redruth
Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum/Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/06/2026 23:59
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Job overview
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality mental health care in the community? Our Home Treatment Team (HTT) is expanding, and we are looking for skilled and compassionate Mental Health Practitioners to join our service.
HTT provides intensive support to adults of working age experiencing acute mental health crises. Our focus is on helping individuals remain safely at home, avoiding hospital admission wherever possible, and supporting those recently discharged to minimise inpatient stays. We work collaboratively with individuals, carers, and wider services to offer responsive, person-centred crisis intervention across Cornwall.
The team is currently undergoing significant investment to strengthen our service and respond to the evolving needs of our communities. This includes increasing clinical staffing to support caseload demand and contributing to MDT caseload planning and collaborative care.
We welcome applications from:
- Registered Mental Health Nurses
- Social Workers
- Occupational Therapists
If you’re committed to compassionate crisis care, enjoy working within a dynamic MDT, and want to be part of a service that is developing and growing, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Use whole team approach with the Home Treatment Team, incorporating the Crisis Hub.
- Operate a 24-hour, 7 days a week service.
- Provide urgent clinical assessment for clients in immediate crisis, where needs are best met away from physical health setting (A&E).
- Engage with a defined client group presenting with acute mental health distress or needs, who have agreed to receive treatment within the community rather than within a hospital setting.
- Use evidence-based practice to provide assessment and interventions that promote client engagement in treatment and aid recovery.
- Share clinical management of a defined caseload and develop interfaces with other services and agencies to offer focused, coordinated care.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
- Current professional registration – NMC / SW Eng / HCPC.
- To have Sign Off Mentor (SOM) qualification as in accordance with the NMC and be able to sign off students as proficient for registration.
- Must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Experience
- Previous experience working with service users in mental health crisis.
- Experience of leading a team.
Benefits
- Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues’ physical and mental health.
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff.
- Free DBS checks where required.
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions.
- Salary sacrifice car scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.
