B6 Mental Health Practitioner - Brief Interventions

Transformation Unit; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Leatherhead is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Mole Valley Neighbourhood mental health team. The role focuses on providing high-quality, person-centred care within the community, including assessments, brief interventions, and care navigation for adults with significant mental health needs.

The post holder will manage a complex caseload, work with GP practices and primary care teams, and support integration between

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work.
• Registration with NMC/HCPC/SWE is required.
• Experience in community mental health care is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and brief psychosocial interventions for adults.
• Deliver care navigation and coordinating with GP practices.
• Manage a complex caseload and support recovery goals in the community.
• Collaborate with partner services to ensure integrated care.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Care planning

Education

Mental Health Nursing

Occupational Therapy

Social Work

Job description

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Leatherhead Hub Town Leatherhead Salary £41,957 - £50,387 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/10/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

Mole Valley Neighbourhood mental health team is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our in the Brief Interventions pathway will work closely with GP Practices. This role is 33.75hrs can be spread in 4 or 5 days a week.

This rewarding role involves providing high-quality, person-centred care and support to adults with established mental health needs, helping them achieve recovery goals and maintain independence within their local community. The post holder will manage a complex caseload, undertake comprehensive assessments, deliver psychosocial interventions, and work collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure effective and coordinated care.

Subject to reasonable adjustments in respect of any disability, candidates must possess a valid driving licence and be able to drive and have the unrestricted use of a car or motorcycle for work at all times including community based work.

Main duties of the job

You will take a key role in developing and shaping a major new and transformative approach to providing mental health care within the community.

Will be responsible for working closely with General Practitioners and the primary care team to provide assessments, brief interventions, and care navigation for people with significant mental health issues living in the locality.

You will need to work closely with local mental health services to support an easy in and out approach between secondary and primary care.

Please check the job description for more information on the requirements for this job.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy or Social Work
• Professional registration such as NMC/HCPC/SWE

Experience

• Further professional training or experience to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience of looking after people in the Community
• Clinical supervision training

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.