B6 Mental Health Practitioner (NMC)

NHS; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Leatherhead is looking for a B6 Mental Health Practitioner to join their multidisciplinary team. This role focuses on delivering person-centered healthcare for individuals with mental health issues, requiring strong clinical decision-making skills and relevant qualifications. The position offers a salary between £40,617 to £48,778 per annum, pro rata, and emphasizes collaboration within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Further training or experience to post graduate diploma level or extensive experience.
• Experience working with people with dual diagnosis or service.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centred healthcare.
• Work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care.
• Identify issues of concern at work and alert appropriate personnel.
• Recognize potential crisis situations and act responsively.

Skills

Clinical supervision training

Experience with dual diagnosis

Awareness of boundaries

Education

RMN/RN (Mental Health)

Mentorship course

Job description

Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

B6 Mental Health Practitioner (NMC)

The closing date is 13 October 2025

Our Community Mental Health Recovery Service are secondary Mental Health Teams who provide assessments for evidence based, time limited treatment and psychological interventions for adults with severe and enduring mental health issues.

The focus of our whole service is promoting recovery and independence and developing self-management strategies to encourage people to achieve their potential in the community.

We are a multidisciplinary team who provide advice and support for GPs and work with individuals and their carers and can refer or signpost to a number of statutory, independent and voluntary sector agencies. We seek to work closely with individuals, supporting them in their recovery journey, and their families as well as other organisations where consent has been given.

This opportunity is open to candidates with the NMC and living in the UK.

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

To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centred healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.

To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health.

To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.

To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.

To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.

To identify issues of concern at work and alerting appropriate personnel.

To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.

To understand the range of risks potentially faced by the service user group.

To recognize potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly to resolve the situation, seeking assistance if required.

To utilize in clinical supervision, and appraisal in enhancing performance development.

Please refer the job description for full details.

About us

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.

Our core purpose is to work with people and lead communities in improving their mental and physical health and wellbeing for a better life through delivering excellent and responsive prevention, diagnosis, early intervention, treatment and care.

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

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.

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.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

Please read the Job Description and Personal Specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person Specification

Experience

• Further training or experience to post graduate diploma level or extensive experience
• Aware of personal and professional boundaries
• Clinical supervision training
• Experience working with people with dual diagnosis or service

Qualifications

• RMN/RN (Mental Health)
• Successful completion of Mentorship course

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.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£40,617 to £48,778 a year(Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata