Community Mental Health Practitioner

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; England; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Community Mental Health Practitioner to join their Intensive Life Skills Pathway Team in Shropshire. The role focuses on providing assessments and evidence-based interventions to support individuals with complex emotional needs. Ideal candidates must have a relevant nursing qualification or equivalent, and the ability to deliver group and individual interventions. The organization offers robust support for career development, generous leave, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous leave options

Flexible working opportunities

Health and Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience working with complex mental health needs.
• Formal courses relevant to emotional instability.
• Experience in community mental health settings.

Responsibilities

• Providing evidenced based therapeutic interventions for service users.
• Undertaking assessments to inform care plans.
• Assisting with consultations and supervision of other health professionals.

Skills

Ability to deliver group and individual interventions

Ability to work with service users expressing high levels of distress

Positive attitude and compassionate approach

Education

Relevant nursing qualification or related registration (RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker)

Psychological intervention Qualification (EMDR, CBT, etc.)

Job description

Go back Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 05 January 2026

A rewarding opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner within the Intensive Life Skills Pathway Team based in Shropshire.

We are a specialist community team working within the area of complex emotional needs providing assessment, formulation and intervention using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework. Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase peoples emotional social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy.

The post is open to current Nurses, Social Workers & Occupational Therapists who are looking to be part of this exciting team where you will have the opportunity to access further development and training within this role.

Main duties of the job

• As part of this role, you will be working in a specialist adult community mental health pathway, providing evidenced based interventions for an identified caseload of service users.
• You will be responsible for undertaking assessments in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person's needs, goals, risks, and strengths, to inform and generate a formulation-based care plan, agreed with all involved.
• Responsibility for delivering evidenced based therapeutic interventions on a 1:1 and group basis, in accordance with an agreed care plan.

You will also have the opportunity to assist with consultations, support and supervision to other health professionals working within the Community Mental Health Service and other areas of the Trust, where identified as appropriate.

The ideal candidate:

• A relevant nursing qualification or other registration - RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Therapist.
• Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs, related to emotional instability.
• Ability to deliver group and individual interventions.
• Ability to work with service users expressing high levels of distress.
• A positive attitude and a caring and compassionate approach.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

Before applying for this exciting and rewarding job opportunity, we encourage you to view the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A relevant nursing qualification or other registration - RMN / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Therapist.
• Psychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, MBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, SCM.
• Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs related to emotional instability.
• Registered student assessor
• Qualification in providing supervision

Experience

• Post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties.
• Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and who have complex emotional mental health needs
• Experience working in a community mental health setting
• Experience of assessing, planning and working alongside people with mental health problems in a community setting.
• Experience of providing supervision

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Intensive Life Skills Shropshire Community Service

Intensive Life Skills Shropshire Community Service