# Assistant Practitoner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West London NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** West London NHS Trust
- **Town:** Southall
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £33,262 - £36,027 Per Annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27T11:50:37.446Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8184684
- **Employer website:** https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Assistant Practitioner worker in Ealing Acton MINT. We are looking to recruit an individual who has excellent communication skills and an interest in working directly with people. You will be working in a team with staff covering many different roles and it will be important that you can work with a team.

### Main duties of the job

We are based in South Acton, and the role involves carrying out assessments with clients who have been identified as requiring support from our service, signposting to agreed and appropriate community resources, making additional referrals, escalating any identified safety or safeguarding concerns and working with the wider team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of the local community
- A good awareness of different models of understanding of mental health
- A good awareness of current issues in policy and practice in mental health
- Thorough understanding of co-production and recovery principles
- Thorough understanding of equal opportunities with particular emphasis on how it applies to users of mental health services

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of 1:1 client work
- One year or more experience of working or volunteering in mental health services
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across organisations

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in a community development context or similar
- Experience of working alongside or supervising volunteers

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development appropriate to the role in order to ensure competency and the execution of best clinical practice.

**Desirable**

- NVQ level 3 or working towards an equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area or demonstrable equivalent experience

## Documents

- [jd & ps (docx, 970.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10488492)
- [oh requirements (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3067)
- [occupational health requirements (pdf, 376.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3003)

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