Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Devon and Cornwall
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6 Specialist Practitioner to work across Devon and Cornwall within the Southwest Op Courage Veterans Mental Health Service. The postholder will deliver quality nursing care, conduct holistic assessments, and coordinate care as a keyworker for veterans with complex mental health difficulties and psychological trauma. The service operates a hybrid working model, requiring strong clinical skills in assessment and therapeutic interventions.
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse with current registration and has successfully completed preceptorship
- Understanding of trauma informed approaches and current nursing practice
- Substantial experience at band 5 in mental health settings
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Function as keyworker coordinating all aspects of care and communication for the person, their family members
- Demonstrate leadership skills - motivating others, using own initiative, change management
- Mobile with the facility to move easily across a geographically dispersed, and often rural, area with limited access to public transport. This will include attending face-to-face appointments, Trust training and team meetings as required
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in nursing or related discipline
- Is a veteran, has lived experience of the veteran community or has experience of caring for veterans
- Education, Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse with current registration and has successfully completed preceptorship
- Understanding of trauma informed approaches and current nursing practice
- Substantial experience at band 5 in mental health settings
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Function as keyworker coordinating all aspects of care and communication for the person, their family members
- Demonstrate leadership skills - motivating others, using own initiative, change management
- Mobile with the facility to move easily across a geographically dispersed, and often rural, area with limited access to public transport. This will include attending face-to-face appointments, Trust training and team meetings as required
- Post-graduate qualification in nursing or related discipline
- Is a veteran, has lived experience of the veteran community or has experience of caring for veterans
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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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Devon and Cornwall
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
Please note this advert is for a specialist practitioner to work across Devon and Cornwall. The address on the advert in Weston Super Mare is our admin base and regular travel there is NOT required.
The Southwest Op Courage Veterans Mental Health Service operates across the entire Southwest and has an operational base in Weston-Super-Mare. The service is one of six national NHS England commissioned Op Courage services and is delivered by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Op Courage provides a complete care pathway and is delivered by an experienced and committed Multi-Disciplinary Team.
The pathway starts with a comprehensive needs-led conversation and is followed by evidence-based interventions/treatment for a wide range of need and complexity, including complex mental health difficulties and psychological trauma.
The service is currently looking to recruit a Band 6 Specialist Practitioner to work across Devon and Cornwall so the postholder will need to live within this area and be mobile; however, on occasions, it will be necessary to work outside this area in order to support service delivery and to attend team meetings.
The service is delivered via a hybrid working model which includ
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