Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/OT/SW)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Preston West Community Mental Health Team. The role involves delivering Structured Clinical Management (SCM) to service users with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) within a community setting. The practitioner will manage a caseload, facilitate groups, and engage with wider community systems to support recovery and promote evidence-based practice. Regular supervision is provided to support professional development in this specialized area.
Essential criteria
- Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN, SW, OT)
- In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
- Knowledge around a variety of personality presentations
- In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health problems
- Post qualification experience of clinical work and assessment with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems
- Experience of working with people who have a diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of risk assessment and management
- Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN, SW, OT)
- In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
- Knowledge around a variety of personality presentations
- In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health problems
- Post qualification experience of clinical work and assessment with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems
- Experience of working with people who have a diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of risk assessment and management
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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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/OT/SW)
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Preston West Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for a Band 6 (Structured Clinical Management) SCM Practitioner. The successful candidate will work with service users who have a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) who are currently on CMHT caseloads. You will deliver SCM to a caseload of service users within the community setting.
SCM is recognised as the gold standard of care for people with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD). It is evidenced based and recommended in NICE guidelines. SCM has been selected by the trust as the approach to implement within the personality disorder pathway. This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop specific skills in line with evidence based treatment and be involved in providing support for service user's to recover, develop autonomy and no longer require secondary mental health services.
As well as direct face to face contact with the service user, and group work, it is expected that the post holder will be able to engage with the wider community system (A&E, police, inpatient and community settings) and support them to deliver evidence based practice.
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