

Band 6 Crisis & HBTT Practitioner
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Job Title: Band 6 Crisis and HBTT Practitioner
Specialism: Crisis and Home-Based Treatment Team (HBTT)
Location: Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich NR6 5BE
Salary: £26.50 per hour (Weekdays), £34.00 per hour (Nights & Saturdays), £41.00 per hour (Sundays & Bank Holidays)
Type: Ongoing, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Crisis and HBTT Practitioner in Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich NR6 5BE. This is a locum job offering an hourly rate of £26.50 on weekdays, £34.00 on nights and Saturdays, and £41.00 on Sundays and bank holidays. Join our Crisis and Home-Based Treatment Team, working 37.5 hours per week across a flexible 7-day pattern. This ongoing role is perfect for those looking to make a real difference in mental health care.
Perks and benefits:
- Locum Job: Enjoy the flexibility and variety of locum work, allowing you to maintain an excellent work-life balance while experiencing diverse clinical settings.
- Professional Networking: Grow your professional network by working alongside experienced healthcare professionals across different services.
- Diverse Clinical Experience: Gain exposure to a variety of mental health environments, broadening your expertise and enhancing your clinical skills.
- Competitive Pay: Benefit from excellent hourly rates, including enhanced pay for nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
What you will do:
- Undertake comprehensive mental health and crisis assessments.
- Complete risk assessments and formulations, including suicide and self-harm risk assessments.
- Make autonomous clinical decisions on urgency, treatment, and admission avoidance.
- Deliver intensive home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission.
- Manage acute mental health presentations such as psychosis and high-risk distress.
- Provide brief therapeutic and crisis interventions.
- Hold and manage a dynamic caseload of high-risk patients.
- Deliver frequent contacts through home visits, clinics, and telephone support.
- Monitor risk, response to treatment, and the need for escalation.
- Coordinate care across the system, including inpatient wards, community teams, GPs, police, and NHS 111 services.
- Support admission gatekeeping and safe discharge planning.
- Complete timely clinical documentation, including assessments, care plans, and risk plans.
- Record outcomes and actions for governance and audit purposes.
- Act as a senior clinician on shift, supporting Band 5 staff.
- Contribute to clinical triage and prioritisation of workload.
Salary range
- £26.50 per hour
Band
- Band 6
