Senior Practitioner/Shift Co-ordinator | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Milton Keynes is hiring for a Senior Practitioner to support the Crisis and Home Treatment team. This role involves providing clinical leadership, managing caseloads, and ensuring high quality mental health care. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in mental health crisis care and will work alongside various team members to enhance patient outcomes.

Benefits

Continuous learning environment

Supportive team culture

Qualifications

• Significant experience in SPA, crisis or community services.
• Highly developed clinical leadership skills required.
• Expert knowledge in mental health crisis care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and management to the team.
• Ensure consistent provision of high quality mental health care.
• Work closely with Team Manager for service management.
• Lead the team and manage day-to-day operations.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Expert knowledge in mental health crisis care

Caseload management

Supervision and training

Education

Qualified Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity to appoint to Band 7 Senior Practitioner to support the Crisis and Home Treatment team in Milton Keynes. We are looking for a qualified Mental Health practitioner with significant experience of working in SPA, crisis or community services. If you have the equivalent experience, then we would welcome your application.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Practitioner will provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and will be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in mental health crisis in the community.
• The post holder will work closely with the Team Manager to ensure the effective management and development of the service.
• The post holder will lead and provide day to day management in the team reporting to the Crisis and Home Treatment manager.
• You will use your management skills and experience to provide operational support to a team flexibly, efficiently and within allocated resources to ensure that the highest quality of service is provided to users.
• The successful candidate will be supported and line managed by the Team Manager and will work alongside the members of the MDT including Consultants, Nurses, Social Worker, support worker, OT\'s and Psychological services, to support service users.

Qualifications and Skills

The successful applicant will have highly developed clinical leadership skills and expert knowledge in the care of mental health crisis. The Senior Practitioner will provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and will be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in mental health crisis in the community.

Learning and Development

We can provide training and supervision and can offer you a great learning environment where you can continue to develop your therapeutic skills.

About the Trust and Culture

We\'re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We\'re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we\'re hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you\'re at, there\'s always a place for you at CNWL.

Advert Close

This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025