Community Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to join the Adult Community Mental Health Team at Chorley Health Centre. The role involves providing comprehensive assessment, advice, and treatment to individuals with complex mental health needs, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Key responsibilities include assessing, planning, implementing, and reviewing care pathways, with a focus on medication knowledge and risk management. The successful candidate will also participate in a rotational duty system and contribute to the team's innovative and collaborative approach.
Essential criteria
- Professionally Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Equivalent professional registered social worker
- Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life
- Pharmaceutical knowledge of medications: particularly psychotropics, Clozapine and Lithium
- Demonstrable interest in continuing developing knowledge
- Post qualification experience within mental health services. With some of these to have been within acute mental health services
- Experience of working with a full range of mental illness
- Experience of providing supervision
- Professionally Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Equivalent professional registered social worker
- Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life
- Pharmaceutical knowledge of medications: particularly psychotropics, Clozapine and Lithium
- Demonstrable interest in continuing developing knowledge
- Post qualification experience within mental health services. With some of these to have been within acute mental health services
- Experience of working with a full range of mental illness
- Experience of providing supervision
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our Adult Community Mental Health Team service, based at Chorley Health Centre, Chorley.
You will join a friendly team who are committed to their own development and who are, outgoing and sociable. The team is also flexible and family friendly where everyone's individualised cases are considered to help manage work-life balance where possible.
We are looking for a Core registered mental health practitioner, with post qualification experience in working clinically with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems, who are able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, and has experience in assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs and pathways with complex mental health issues.
We require someone who has great knowledge of medications and how to monitor them. Particularly psychotropic medications including Clozaril and Lithium.
You will also be required to have experience and knowledge of risk assessment and care and safety management, the ability to explore issues relating to the impact of health and social needs in mental health and well-being. We take a multi-disciplinary approach, in a holistic way.
You will also be expected to take part in our Duty system on a rotational basis as a back up duty officer.
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