Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the Torridge Core Adult Mental Health Team in Bideford, North Devon. The successful candidate will manage a defined caseload, providing expert assessment and treatment for individuals with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. It involves recovery co-ordination, designing and evaluating personalised treatment packages. The team is actively engaging with the local Primary Care Network and transforming community services.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services.
- Manage a defined caseload with a focus on expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers.
- Provide recovery co-ordination, including the design and co-ordination of personalised and evaluated treatment packages.
- Exercise clinical judgement in respect of assessing and managing risk.
- Help deliver a safe, timely, caring and responsive service.
Essential criteria
- An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans, including complex multi-agency care plans.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area.
- Substantial experience of managing a extensive and complex caseload of clients with a range of complex mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
- Providing clinical supervision.
- Mentoring students in line with professional requirements
- A professional mental health qualification eg RMN, Social Work Degree or equivalent, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, on the appropriate professional body register and hold current registration with no restrictions.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health Awareness of community structures and social care management responsibilities
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Participation in user involvement in services.
- Experience of delivering model based psychological therapy.
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism Clinical Supervision qualification Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff Evidence of leadership/management training within a core service
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 1d ago · Closes in 17d
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Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental
Health Practitioner within the Torridge Core Adult Mental Health Team based at Abbotsvale
in Bideford, North Devon.
You'll be joining Devon Partnership Trust, which encompasses
urban, rural and coastal demographics that combine to make this a fascinating
and beautiful area to work.
The successful candidate will be joining a dynamic,
motivated and skilled service and help the team in the Torridge core team to
build upon the successful work they have and continue to achieve.
The Torridge Core Adult team are proactively now engaging
with the local Primary Care Network, working alongside the local GP Surgeries.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust is growing as we establish
ourselves us as one of the leading providers of mental health services in the
country.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive
mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a
focus on providing expert assessment and treatment for people with complex
mental health difficulties and their carers.
This will include recovery co-ordination (design and
co-ordination of treatment packages that are personalised and evaluated).
We are looking for someone with enthusiasm
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