Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join a multi-disciplinary team in North Durham, working with people of varying ages and complex mental health needs. The role involves participating in a range of interventions including triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments for neurodiverse clients, and psychosocial interventions. The successful candidate will also provide coaching, clinical, and caseload supervision to junior colleagues. Candidates must have 18 months post-qualifying experience with appropriate preceptorship or competency framework sign-off.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver intervention in the community to people with complex mental health needs, ranging from mild to severe and enduring.
- Ensure service users' recovery goals are identified and central to their Safety plans, promoting social inclusion, independence, and well-being.
- Demonstrate excellent assessment, interpersonal, and team working skills.
- Work collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies.
- Participate in a range of interventions including triage, complex assessments, depot clinics, diagnostic assessments for the neuro diverse client group and psychosocial interventions.
- Provide ongoing coaching support, clinical and caseload supervision to junior colleagues and wider members of the MDT.
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.
- 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.
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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The North Durham Community Mental Health Team is a newly developed team working across the Derwentside and Chester-Le-Street areas. 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 Intervention 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.
Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
Main duties of the job
As a registered professional 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, y
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