Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Gainsborough CP; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Gainsborough is seeking a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join their team. The role involves providing person-centred care, conducting assessments, and developing treatment plans for individuals with severe mental illnesses. Applicants must be registered nurses or equivalent, with experience in mental health support. This full-time position operates Monday to Friday, emphasizing teamwork and community engagement in delivering high-quality mental health services.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and promotion opportunities

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or equivalent with current professional registration.
• Evidence of specialized continued professional training in clinical practice.
• Experience working with individuals in mental health crisis.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality person-centred care to patients and families.
• Conduct comprehensive evidence-based assessments.
• Manage a caseload and ensure effective treatment plans.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Highly developed communication skills

Ability to lead a clinical team

Ability to work independently

Knowledge of national agenda for mental health

Education

Registered Nurse: 1st Level Registration (NMC)

Registered Occupational Therapist

Registered Social Worker

Job description

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 12 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 5 professionally registered Mental Health Practitioner to join the Gainsborough Integrated Place Based Team.

The team provide a 5 day a week service, Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm.

We are a friendly, supportive and proactive team with a culture of delivering a high quality of care. The team works collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, such as GPs, neighbourhood teams, social workers, peer support, social prescribing and the Community Mental Health Team.

The team provide therapeutic interventions for those individuals that experience severe and enduring mental illness, offering nursing, occupational therapy and psychological interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting health, wellbeing, self autonomy and independence.

The successful candidate will work effectively in the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively to provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment plans and risk management plans, providing evidence based interventions.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be providing high quality person-centred care to patients, families and carers.

You will act as care co-ordinator, undertaking comprehensive evidence-based assessments and have a sound knowledge of psycho-social interventions, supporting service users to work towards recovery goals, build self-resilience and promote independent living.

Promote engagement and involve service users/carers in the planning and delivery of compassionate care.

Monitor the impact and effectiveness of the interventions delivered.

Make and maintain accurate record keeping.

Provide problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.

Participate in regular clinical and management supervision.

The successful applicant will be required to have a good knowledge of medication management policy and safely administer medication as prescribed.

The applicant must have a flexible 'can do' approach, with the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changes, often at short notice.

A positive attitude is essential for effective team work and management of the challenges and complexities within our work.

The post holder will also need to have the ability to travel independently in the community to deliver services.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job responsibilities

Manage a caseload in the community; establishing priorities within that caseload; ensuring effective use of time.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning, working towards recovery.

To act as an autonomous practitioner making decisions about service user care as appropriate with the nursing and wider multi-disciplinary team.

To ensure up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place using clinical outcome measures; involving service users/carers in the planning and delivery of care in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

Medication management.

To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.

Maintain the welfare and safety of service users and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.

Liaison and collaborative working with internal and external agencies, promoting effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.

To adhere to professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.

To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.

Person Specification

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses

Skills and Competences

• Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
• Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Ability to travel independently throughout the county without the use of public transport

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent, OR Registered Occupational Therapist OR Registered Social Worker
• Current Professional Registration
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
• Management training
• ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
• Mentorship Module (degree level) or student supervisor/assessor training.

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel independently across the county

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.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust