Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join the new Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service in Ealing. The role involves working with service users with complex psychosis who require an assertive approach to engagement. You will be responsible for assessing needs, developing robust care plans, and providing care, treatment, and support within a multi-disciplinary team. Experience in community-based and outreach working, along with strong skills in risk assessment and crisis management, is essential.
Key responsibilities
- Assess, plan, and coordinate care plans and treatment for a defined caseload of service users with complex needs related to psychotic illnesses.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide on-going holistic assessments, treatment, and support to clients with severe and enduring mental illness.
- Deliver intensive community-based mental health services in service users' home environments, community, or supported living accommodation.
- Utilise a whole system approach to recovery, maximising quality of life and promoting independence and autonomy.
- Take a flexible, robust, and persistent approach to working alongside service users and their support networks to deliver care.
Essential criteria
- Current professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing
- Registration must be live with a professional body such as NMC or other relevant body
- Evidence of post registration training and CPD
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary mental health teams with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Experience of working with disengaged or hard to engage clients in a community setting
- Skills in risk assessment, crisis management and care delivery
- Knowledge of CPA process/ named worker principles and the relevant legislation that underpins mental health care.
- Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
- Can demonstrate understanding of complex psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
- Skills in psychosocial interventions
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
- Family Therapy/Work training
- Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn
- Dual diagnosis/substance misuse
- Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Working with people who use substances
- Audit and research; Teaching
- Work with people experiencing mental health crisis
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 4d ago · Closes in 9d
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for suitably qualified and experienced candidates who are registered with the NMC within our new Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service within the Borough of Ealing. Ealing is mobilising these new services bringing together the existing Community Rehabilitation teams alongside new investment to develop an assertive outreach pathway for service users with complex psychosis who need an assertive approach to engagement as part of their clinical presentation to provide care, treatment and support.
Successful candidates will show knowledge and experience of the clinical processes and treatments that support the care of people experiencing psychosis with complex needs. They will also demonstrate experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team setting; taking responsibility for assessing need and setting up robust care plans to support service user recovery. They will be able to take a flexible, robust and persistent approach to working alongside service users and their support networks to deliver care and get the greatest benefit from treatment.
Experience of working with complex mental health needs and high risk clients is essential as well as strong skills in risk assessment, care planning and crisis management. Experience of community based and outreach working is also essential.
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