Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Devon & Cornwall
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 Band 6 Specialist Practitioner within the Southwest Op Courage Veterans Mental Health Service, covering Devon and Cornwall. The postholder will conduct mental health assessments, provide therapeutic interventions, and act as a keyworker, coordinating care for service users and their families. The role involves hybrid working, including clinical spaces, hot-desking, and homeworking, with some lone working required for face-to-face or virtual appointments. The practitioner will also guide and supervise junior colleagues and students.
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 public transport.
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 public transport.
- 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 & Cornwall
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
The Southwest Op Courage Veterans Mental Health Service operates across the entire Southwest and 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 includes using clinical spaces, hot-desks and homeworking. Clinical appointments are delivered face to face or virtually, in line with patient choice and clinical/operational need, so some lone working will be required.
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