Triage Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Compressed hours
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
Join the Mental Health Single Point of Access (SPA) team for Surrey and North East Hampshire. This role involves providing timely mental health assessment, triage, and clinical decision-making for referrals. You will undertake comprehensive psychiatric, psychosocial, and risk assessments, ensuring effective risk management and care planning. The position requires working autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to coordinate urgent responses and facilitate safe transfers of care. The aim is to provide people with mental health issues access to the support they need at the right time.
Key responsibilities
- Provide timely mental health assessment, triage, and clinical decision-making for emergency and urgent referrals.
- Ensure effective risk assessment, care planning, and signposting to appropriate services.
- Undertake comprehensive psychiatric, psychosocial, and risk assessments, identifying risks and taking appropriate action.
- Formulate and communicate clear clinical recommendations, determining the most appropriate pathway for treatment.
- Work autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to coordinate urgent responses and facilitate safe transfers of care.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and legally compliant clinical records, ensuring all interventions, assessments, and outcomes are appropriately documented.
Essential criteria
- A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN,OT, Social Work Degree or equivalent Clinical Supervision qualification
- Two years post qualification experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post qualification study
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,957 – £50,387 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Triage Practitioner
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
Come and join the Mental HealthSingle point of Access (SPA) team for Surrey and North East Hampshire.
The SPA Service offers:
- A single referral point for GPs and other professionals across Surrey and north east Hampshire
- Compressed hours e.g. Mon-Weds 8am-8pm.
- A 24 hour telephone advice and support for people who use services and carers
- More responsive crisis services with improved experiences for people who use services, carers and professionals
Our aim is to provide people with mental health issues access to the support they need at the right time, with positive outcomes.
We are looking for people who are dedicated to promoting recovery, and who can inspire people experiencing mental health and their families that recovery is possible for everyone. You will have access to training and support and supervision from qualified Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers.
Post holders will work within our hub located at Gatton Place, Redhill located across the Trust providing a single point of access for all emergency, urgent and routine referrals. You will be working alongside our team of practitioners in order to expand skills and experience in the triage, assessment and treatment of people experiencin
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