Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

Tewv Brits; Redcar; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join a community-based team in Redcar. The role involves working collaboratively with individuals of varying ages and needs, delivering psychological interventions, and supporting the recovery journey of service users. Candidates should have significant experience in mental health care and a commitment to professional development.

Qualifications

• 18 months post qualifying experience, including sign off of appropriate preceptorship.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy, and ITQ level 2.

Responsibilities

• Deliver interventions in the community for individuals with complex needs.
• Participate in triage, assessments, and risk management.
• Provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues.

Skills

Collaborative working

Assessment skills

Interpersonal skills

Team working

Education

Current professional registration

Post-graduate qualification in relevant area

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 03 June 2025

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a community based team in Redcar.

As a senior practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with people of varying ages and complex needs, including service users, Carers, families and our partners including statutory and voluntary agencies.

The successful candidate will participate in a range of interventions including triage, complex assessments, risk management and deliver evidence based psychological wellbeing interventions (training will be provided) to support a purposeful service user journey.

The successful candidate may also be required to provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including being signed off for the appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

This post is not solely limited to professionals from a social care or nursing background, applications from Allied Health Professions are welcome.

Main duties of the job

As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for delivering interventions in the community with people who have complex needs, ranging from mild to moderate level of need to severe and enduring level of need and complexity. You will ensure that the service users' recovery goals are identified and central to their Safety plans, promoting social inclusion, independence and well-being. You will demonstrate excellent assessment skills, interpersonal, and team working skills and be able to work collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies.

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.

About us

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

Our talented and compassionate team works 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.

Job responsibilities

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.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 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. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
• 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)
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

Experience

• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
• Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Quality improvement activities
• Leadership or management experience
• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.

Knowledge

• Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
• Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its 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
• The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust