Senior Mental Health Practitioner

NSFT; Lowestoft; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Training opportunities

Annual leave progression

NHS discounts

Job summary

NSFT in Lowestoft is recruiting Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioners to join the Waveney Adult Community Mental Health Team. You will be a qualified Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with community experience under the Care Programme Approach.

The role focuses on triage and assessment within a multidisciplinary team, care coordination, and delivering direct patient care across working-age adults with mental health needs.

Qualifications

• Registered professional with UK registration in nursing, OT, or social work.
• Training as Practice Assessor/Supervisor or Educator in relevant register.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development toward degree level.
• Higher degree or postgraduate certificate in clinical/therapeutic practice.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver direct patient care with multidisciplinary support.
• Manage a caseload and provide mental health care to adults.
• Ensure accurate mental health clustering on admission, discharge and review.
• Pass clustering information to other Trust teams on patient transfer.
• Maintain accuracy and quality of clustering activity within the team.

Skills

Care coordination

Risk assessment

Community mental health

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse

Occupational Therapist

Social Worker

Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training

Higher degree or postgraduate certificate

Job description

Main area Community Mental Health for Adults Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

30 hours per week (Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00) Job ref 246-GYW8347341

Site Victoria House Town Lowestoft Salary £38,682 - £46,580 gross per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 09/11/2026 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

Job overview

Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner - Waveney Adult Community Mental Health Team

Waveney Mental Health Team are looking for new Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioners. You will be a qualified professional Nurse,
Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with experience of working in the community supporting working age adults with mental health problemsfollowing the Care Programme Approach. The successful candidate will demonstrate a sound understanding of their role as a Care Coordinatorand join our friendly multidisciplinary team of Social Workers, O.T.s and Nurses who are experienced community practitioners. You also will bepart of the triage and assessment process within the team for referrals from the GP surgeries and other services. So, you will need to demonstraterobust and sound assessment skills. Your potential team colleagues are Assistant Practitioners, Peer workers, Psychologists, Psychologicaltherapists, Carer’s support, Physical health lead, Employment worker, Psychiatrists and Therapists all ably supported by our admin staff.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• To manage a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to people with mental health care need.
• To be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review.
• To ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients.
• To ensure accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team.
• Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training (NMC registrants) or Practice Educator (AHP & Social Worker Registrants)
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)
• Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
• Experience in delivering group based interventions
• Experience in supporting service development

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [e-mail].

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your "junk" mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your " junk" inbox.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post may be 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.