# Associate Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Rochford Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Assistant practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 Per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-21T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07T16:35:36.992Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Braintree/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Mental_Health/Community_Mental_Health-v8346358
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8346358?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Gables Specialist Mental Health Team is a community mental health services that covers the areas of Braintree and Maldon in Essex. The team are responsible for the care and treatment for patients with a mental health condition and who present with risks that require a Multi-Disciplinary Team who require intervention and support.

Core functions of the team include:

- Care Coordination
- Outpatient Clinics
- Clozapine and depot clinics
- Physical health clinic
- Duty
- Occupational Therapy
- Employment Support
- Social Work tasks under the Care Act 2014

### Main duties of the job

The Band 4 Associate Practitioner role is a mixture of clinical tasks, administrative tasks and other roles that support the functioning of the Specialist Mental Health Team, including but not limited to:

- Leading and running the physical health clinics
- Providing support to the clozapine and depot clinics where required
- Supporting the teams duty service on a rota
- Organising and following up on clinical outcomes following assessments
- Provide healthy lifestyle advice, and health promotion advice
- Assisting senior clinicians in the assessment and management of risk or to carry out care planned interventions
- Identify possible safeguarding concerns and take appropriate action through escalation of concerns

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see full Job Description and Person Specification documents for all details regarding the role being advertised.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Previous work within a mental health setting

**Desirable**

- Previous work running a physical health clinic

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Holds current qualification for Associate Practitioner or Nursing Associate

**Desirable**

- 1 or more years working at this level

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990)
- [job description (docx, 385.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676596)
- [person specification (docx, 290.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676597)
- [candidate privacy policy (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1853)
- [right to work information (pdf, 293.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2355)
- [values of the nhs pension (pdf, 151.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2659)
- [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451)

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