Mental Health Practitioner - Community
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role involves working as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner within an Adult Community Mental Health Team. You will deliver safe, personalised, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care to adults with serious mental health needs. Key duties include undertaking assessments, delivering interventions, managing a caseload, and coordinating care, while collaborating with various partners to support recovery goals. The position is part of a major transformation programme to redesign community mental health services.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Social Worker with current professional registration and compliance with the relevant governing body requirements.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to community mental health practice.
Desirable criteria
- Practice educator, mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake.
- Training or experience in DIALOG+, outcomes-focused practice, trauma-informed care, psychosocial interventions or formulation-informed
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary mental health team.
- Experience of managing a caseload and coordinating care for people with complex mental health, social and/or risk-related needs.
- Experience of completing assessments, formulations, care plans, risk assessments, safety plans and clinical reviews.
- Experience of collaborative working with carers, families, GPs, local authority colleagues, VCFSE partners and wider system partners.
- Experience of participating in MDT meetings, safety huddles, supervision and reflective practice.
- Experience of service development, quality improvement, audit, incident learning or complaints learning.
- Understanding of the Personalised Care Framework and the transition from CPA to a needs-led, outcome-focused model of care.
- Understanding of the Named Worker role, including coordination of the care and support plan while working within shared MDT responsibility.
- Knowledge of personalised care and support planning, DIALOG+ or outcome-focused conversations, co-production and recovery-focused practice.
- Knowledge of risk assessment, formulation, safety planning, safeguarding adults, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and least restrictive practice.
- Understanding of trauma-informed, culturally sensitive and strengths-based practice.
- o Understanding of community mental health transformation, MDT working and the role of CMHTs within the wider community pathway.
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Social Worker with current professional registration and compliance with the relevant governing body requirements.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to community mental health practice.
- Practice educator, mentorship qualification or willingness to undertake.
- Training or experience in DIALOG+, outcomes-focused practice, trauma-informed care, psychosocial interventions or formulation-informed
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary mental health team.
- Experience of managing a caseload and coordinating care for people with complex mental health, social and/or risk-related needs.
- Experience of completing assessments, formulations, care plans, risk assessments, safety plans and clinical reviews.
- Experience of collaborative working with carers, families, GPs, local authority colleagues, VCFSE partners and wider system partners.
- Experience of participating in MDT meetings, safety huddles, supervision and reflective practice.
- Experience of service development, quality improvement, audit, incident learning or complaints learning.
- Understanding of the Personalised Care Framework and the transition from CPA to a needs-led, outcome-focused model of care.
- Understanding of the Named Worker role, including coordination of the care and support plan while working within shared MDT responsibility.
- Knowledge of personalised care and support planning, DIALOG+ or outcome-focused conversations, co-production and recovery-focused practice.
- Knowledge of risk assessment, formulation, safety planning, safeguarding adults, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and least restrictive practice.
- Understanding of trauma-informed, culturally sensitive and strengths-based practice.
- o Understanding of community mental health transformation, MDT working and the role of CMHTs within the wider community pathway.
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.
Posted 20d ago · Closes in 24d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - Community
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
We are making one of the largest investments in community mental health services in recent years and are recruiting enthusiastic and compassionateMental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Social Workers to join our Adult Community Mental Health Teams acrossManchester, Salford, Trafford, Bolton and Wigan .
This is your opportunity to be part of a major transformation programme that is redesigning community mental health services, strengthening multidisciplinary working and improving outcomes for local people.
As part of our commitment to safer staffing and delivering high-quality personalised care, we are significantly expanding our workforce and investing in the development of our staff.
We believe people with serious mental health difficulties deserve timely access to skilled professionals, personalised support and meaningful therapeutic relationships.
To achieve this, we are creating bigger, safer and more responsive Community Mental Health Teams that place recovery, personalisation and outcomes at the heart of everything we do.
Depending on local demand and workforce requirements, some practitioners may initially focus on assessment and formulation activity, whilst others may support ongoing
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