Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Knaresborough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join its Community Mental Health Team in Knaresborough. The successful candidate will coordinate care for individuals with mental health challenges, work alongside a dedicated team, and be a key support in their recovery journey. The role requires excellent communication and assessment skills, and offers the opportunity for continuous professional development.

Benefits

Regular supervision and appraisal

Support from experienced multidisciplinary team

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Qualifications

• 18 months post-qualifying experience required.
• Ability to travel independently across the locality.
• Commitment to collaborative care and recovery-focused practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage a personal caseload and provide community interventions.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and statutory agencies.
• Conduct assessments for individuals with complex mental health needs.

Skills

Communication

Team Working

Interpersonal Skills

Assessment Skills

Education

Professional registration with an approved body

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

Tools

Clinical Governance

Mental Health Act Knowledge

Job description

Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner, Knaresborough

Client:

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Knaresborough, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

9e3ac869cfea

Job Views:

6

Posted:

25.06.2025

Expiry Date:

09.08.2025

Job Description:

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge or ready to take your first post in the community setting?

Would you like to work in the beautiful Harrogate District?

Are you passionate about providing excellent care to older adults?

If so we have a post available for a permanent, full time, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker at Alexander House working in our Community Mental Health Team.

You will develop and improve your skills and knowledge in the community and be an active member of our multidisciplinary team. You will be a Key Worker with a caseload which will be challenging at times, as well as rewarding.

We are looking for an enthusiastic team player with good communication skills and the willingness to learn as well as share their knowledge, in this exciting field of mental health. In return we offer you the opportunity to work with a highly skilled and experienced MDT providing support and supervision for you, excellent standards of care for our service users. Please note that the standard working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm, however flexible working can be considered.

We are an established team covering Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, working in peoples own homes and other care environments.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

Main duties of the job

As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing assessments, co-ordination of care as a Key Worker and delivering interventions in the community with people who have complex needs. You will demonstrate excellent assessment and analysis skills, interpersonal, communication and team working skills. You will need to be committed to working collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery focused care.

You will have a knowledge of severe and enduring mental health illness alongside the multitude of co-existing factors that affect the health and wellbeing of our patients, their carers and families.

The Harrogate CMHT (MHSOP) is a compassionate, dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team committed to collaboration and joint working. You will support the team's improvement activities for co-creation, aiming to deliver care that is highly personalised to each individual's needs and working closely with families, paid and unpaid carers.

You will be encouraged and supported to bring your skills and experience to contribute to our team and locality's service development and continuous innovation endeavours.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care - our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Details

Date posted

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

346-NYM-034-25-A

Job locations

Ash Tree Road

Knaresborough

HG5 0UB

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information and to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team, including the Team Manager, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Specialist Nurse.

Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

We encourage interested candidates to make contact with us to find out more about our team and the services we provide.

Paul Hughes / Tracey Scaife / Rebecca Lobb (Advanced Nurse Practitioners)

01423 795150

Person Specification

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge or ready to take your first post in the community setting?

Would you like to work in the beautiful Harrogate District?

Are you passionate about providing excellent care to older adults?

If so we have a post available for a permanent, full time, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker at Alexander House working in our Community Mental Health Team.

You will develop and improve your skills and knowledge in the community and be an active member of our multidisciplinary team. You will be a Key Worker with a caseload which will be challenging at times, as well as rewarding.

We are looking for an enthusiastic team player with good communication skills and the willingness to learn as well as share their knowledge, in this exciting field of mental health. In return we offer you the opportunity to work with a highly skilled and experienced MDT providing support and supervision for you, excellent standards of care for our service users. Please note that the standard working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm, however flexible working can be considered.

We are an established team covering Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, working in peoples own homes and other care environments.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

Main duties of the job

As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing assessments, co-ordination of care as a Key Worker and delivering interventions in the community with people who have complex needs. You will demonstrate excellent assessment and analysis skills, interpersonal, communication and team working skills. You will need to be committed to working collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery focused care.

You will have a knowledge of severe and enduring mental health illness alongside the multitude of co-existing factors that affect the health and wellbeing of our patients, their carers and families.

The Harrogate CMHT (MHSOP) is a compassionate, dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team committed to collaboration and joint working. You will support the team's improvement activities for co-creation, aiming to deliver care that is highly personalised to each individual's needs and working closely with families, paid and unpaid carers.

You will be encouraged and supported to bring your skills and experience to contribute to our team and locality's service development and continuous innovation endeavours.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care - our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Details

Date posted

16 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

346-NYM-034-25-A

Job locations

Alexander House

Ash Tree Road

Knaresborough

HG5 0UB

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information and to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team, including the Team Manager, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Specialist Nurse.

Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

We encourage interested candidates to make contact with us to find out more about our team and the services we provide.

Additional contact details :-

Paul Hughes / Tracey Scaife / Rebecca Lobb (Advanced Nurse Practitioners)

01423 795150

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current professional registration with an approved professional body.

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education.

18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.

Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

Leadership or management qualification

Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

For registered nurses: Non medical prescribe

Experience

Essential

Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting

Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers

Providing clinical supervision

Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.

Working in a multi-disciplinary team

Quality improvement activities

Desirable

Leadership or management experience

Knowledge

Essential

Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.

Understanding of relevant legislation (. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).

Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.

Detailed understanding of Safeguarding andits application in practice

Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.

Clinical Governance and its application in practice

Research and development methodology

Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment

Desirable

The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)

Other

Essential

Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need.

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Created on 25/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom