Mental Health Practitioner - Assertive Outreach Team

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Tiverton; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Devon Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner for the Assertive Outreach Team in Tiverton. This role involves providing mental health assessments and delivering community support to young people at risk of hospital admission. The successful candidate will join a dynamic team focused on high-quality, evidence-based care, with opportunities for professional development and making a real difference in crisis prevention.

Benefits

Opportunities for supervision and CPD

Supportive, experienced team

Strong multi-agency partnerships

Qualifications

• Degree in Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy required.
• Professional registration with NMC, HCPC, or Social Work England needed.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health assessments and risk evaluations in community settings.
• Deliver structured interventions and outreach care as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Support a recovery-focused, person-centred approach to care.

Skills

Mental health assessments

Community support

Risk evaluations

Collaboration

Care planning

Education

Professional qualification at degree level

Professional registration/accreditation

Job description

Location: Tiverton, EX16 6TG
Salary: £29970.00 to £36483.00
Date posted: 19th May 2025
Closing date: 1st June 2025

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is delighted to advertise for a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join our Assertive Outreach Team, part of the Urgent Care Pathway.

The Assertive Outreach Team works with children and young people who are at risk of hospital admission or stepping up into more intensive services, offering intensive community support to reduce crisis and promote emotional recovery. This is an opportunity to be part of a small, dynamic and trauma-informed team offering high-quality, evidence-based care that keeps young people safely connected to their families and communities.

The service operates between 9am and 8pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm on weekends and bank holidays, offering flexibility and genuine teamwork to meet the needs of the children we support.

Main duties of the job

Provide mental health assessments and risk evaluations in community settings

Deliver structured interventions and outreach care as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Work collaboratively with young people, families and professionals to reduce risk and maintain community support

Contribute to care planning, documentation, and safeguarding processes

Support a recovery-focused, person-centred approach to care

Participate in clinical meetings, supervision, and reflective practice

We Offer:

A supportive, experienced and values-led team

Opportunities for supervision, CPD and development

A role where you can make a real difference in crisis prevention and emotional wellbeing

Strong multi-agency partnerships across health, education and social care

If youre a newly qualified or experienced practitioner passionate about making a difference in urgent care for young people, wed love to hear from you.

About us

Successfulapplicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )

Children and Family Health Devon(CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improvehealth outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care andtreatment for children and young people across physical and mental health whichare provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon PartnershipTrust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure wedeliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of ourservices, based on the i-Thrive Framework.

CFHD works closely with our localuniversities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where wesupport students in clinical training placements and in addition support ourown staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatmenthas been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and theirfamilies/carers.

Wewould like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to beunderstanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make usfeel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills andexperience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment thatis informal and without pressure.

Job responsibilities

FullVacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/PersonSpecification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supportinginformation from the role requirements or person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A professional qualification at degree level or equivalent e.g. Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy.
• Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England.
• Q3 It will be an essential requirement for newly qualified social workers to demonstrate that they have completed The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) before commencing in post or there will be a requirement to complete this within the first 12 months of employment with the Trust.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development

Experience

• Post graduate experience working within mental health environments or willingness to complete the DPT preceptorship programme
• Experience managing a caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
• Demonstrates sound theoretical knowledge of children and young people mental health practice
• Working within a community setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.

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.