Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join a multi-disciplinary team in Darlington Community Mental Health Services. The role involves collaborative working with people of varying ages and complex needs, including service users, carers, families, and partner agencies. You will participate in a range of interventions such as triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments for neuro-diverse clients, and psychosocial interventions. The successful candidate may also provide coaching and supervision to junior colleagues and MDT members, while developing their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting.
Key responsibilities
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in Darlington Community Mental Health Services.
- Collaborate with service users, carers, families, and partner agencies to support people with complex needs.
- Participate in a range of interventions including triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments, and psychosocial interventions.
- Provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider MDT members.
- Deliver intervention in the community with people who have complex needs, ensuring recovery goals are central to Safety plans.
- Demonstrate excellent assessment skills, interpersonal, and team working skills.
Essential criteria
- 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).
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
- Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- 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)
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS
- Research and development methodology.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
- Leadership or management experience
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.
- Quality improvement activities
- Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
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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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in Darlington Community Mental Health Services.
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 working across the Hub and Treatment Teams Teams including triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments for the neuro diverse client group and psychosocial interventions.
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.
Nursing candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the time of applying.
**This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility bef
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