Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Mental Health Practitioner within a newly developed Complex Psychosis Service, focusing on Assertive Outreach. The post holder will assess, plan, and coordinate care for service users with complex psychotic illnesses in a community setting. The service aims to provide intensive, holistic support in clients' home environments to promote recovery and independent living. Applicants should be registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, or Occupational Therapists.
Key responsibilities
- Assess, plan, and coordinate care plans and treatment for a defined caseload of service users with complex needs related to psychotic illnesses.
- Provide ongoing holistic assessments, treatment, and support to clients with severe and enduring mental illness in the community.
- Deliver intensive community-based mental health services in service users' home environments, supported living, or other agreed locations.
- Utilise a whole system approach to recovery, maximizing quality of life and social inclusion.
- Support engagement, encourage skills, and promote independence and autonomy for service users.
Essential criteria
- Current professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing/Social Worker/OT
- 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
- Knowledge of CPA process and the relevant legislation that underpins mental health care.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources
- Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
- Skills in risk assessment and management.
- Can demonstrate understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group
- 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.
- Skills in psychosocial interventions
- Motivated and flexible in approaches to engagement
- Able to create good relationships with clients, carers, other professionals and other stakeholders
- Work with service users who are difficult to engage with.
- Reliable
- Disciplined
Desirable criteria
- Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn
- Family Therapy/Work training.
- Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
- Work with people experiencing mental health crisis.
- Supervision of students and junior staff.
- Audit and research; Teaching.
- Working with people who use substances
- Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Basic counselling and group work skills.
- Dual diagnosis/substance misuse
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.
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West London NHS Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting time to join our newly developed Complex Psychosis Service. We are investing in our workforce, expanding our Assertive Outreach model and building multidisciplinary teams that are passionate about recovery, innovation and delivering outstanding care for people living with complex psychosis.
You'll work alongside experienced clinicians in a supportive environment that values professional development, compassionate leadership and continuous improvement. Whether you're looking to broaden your community mental health experience or develop specialist expertise in complex psychosis and assertive outreach, we'll support you to grow.
We are committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. As men are currently under-represented within this team, we particularly welcome applications from male candidates as part of our commitment to ensuring a balanced and inclusive workforce. All appointments will be made on merit.
We welcome applications from registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists who share our ambition to deliver exceptional care and improve the lives of people experiencing severe mental illness.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be working in a Complex Psychosis Team
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