Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join the Harrogate and Ripon Community Treatment Team. The role involves complex assessments, risk management, and delivering evidence-based interventions for individuals with varying mental health needs. You will also provide clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and contribute to service development. This position is ideal for someone looking to develop leadership and clinical skills in a community setting.
Key responsibilities
- Conduct triage, complex assessments, and risk management.
- Deliver evidence-based interventions and support service user journeys.
- Provide ongoing coaching support, clinical, and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and MDT members.
- Manage your own caseload, providing assessments, care co-ordination, and interventions in the community.
- Work collaboratively with statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing.
- Contribute to the team's improvement activities and service development.
Essential criteria
- 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. (at the point of application)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Leadership or management experience
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.
- The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS
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.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 12d
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Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Harrogate and Ripon Community Treatment Team based in Harrogate.
The post would be an ideal developmental post for someone looking to develop their community assessment and intervention skills. Anyone applying from a different environment that is looking to develop their skills would be supported by the leadership team members to ensure their wellbeing was maintained.
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's role will include triage, complex assessments and risk management, deliver evidence-based interventions training will be provided to support a purposeful service user journey whilst with the team as well as provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT
Candidates must hold 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the point of application
Main duties of the job
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for
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