# Community Mental Health Practitioner (AA&HTT)

> 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:** The Crystal centre
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rara
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Covering operation 08:00 to 20:00 seven days a week.)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T12:20:56.145Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Chelmsford/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Older_Adult_Community_Mental_Health/Older_Adult_Community_Mental_Health-v8235425
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8235425?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Community Mental Health Practitioner

### Functional Intensive Response and Support Team

### The Crystal Centre

### Part Time Hours 22.5 hrs per week.

### Main duties of the job

We are pleased to offer the new and exciting opportunity to join the new Mid and South Essex, Older Adult Admission Avoidance & Home Treatment Team. As part of the transformation agenda a new service is being formed to provide support to Older Adults, with Frailty and Functional Mental Health needs.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of this developing service you will help support older adults with functional mental health issues to meet increased needs / rising risk to support admission avoidance and provide home treatment with a Home First approach to support. You will work with a new and growing team, the existing community services and the established Dementia Admission avoidance services across Mid and South Essex

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidelines.
- Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and its application in practice
- Understanding of the Care Act
- Good understanding of national policy and the implications for good mental health
- An understanding of Frailty and the complexities of later life
- Experience in the use of risk assessment tools

**Desirable**

- Use of screening tools in dementia

### Skills/Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of ability to prioritise workload and competing demands
- Evidence of objective setting, time management skills etc
- Ability to plan ways of improving efficiency and cost effectiveness of clinical services
- Evidence of personal development
- Ability to build relationships and negotiate satisfactory outcomes
- Ability to know when to seek the support and guidance of more senior colleagues when necessary
- Ability to use own judgement confidently and decisively

### Education/Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Mental health Nurse, or Occupational Therapist.
- Additional Professional Qualifications in Older adult Mental Health /Dementia or Experience
- Evidence of personal and professional development in contemporary mental health practice and dementia care

**Desirable**

- Educated to Degree Level
- Non-medical Independent prescriber

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990)
- [job description (pdf, 720.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10545776)
- [person specification (pdf, 456.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10545779)
- [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)
- [why join the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 91.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1849)
- [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451)

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