# Community Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-practitioner/647178eb-acf4-4144-b050-7d038c373dad - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-practitioner/647178eb-acf4-4144-b050-7d038c373dad.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Northumbria House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 6 months (Contract ends 31/03/27) - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-09T13:31:17.800Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/North_Tyneside/Northumbria_Healthcare_NHCT_Northumbria_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Mental_Health_Practitioner/Community_Mental_Health_Practitioner-v8214380 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8214380?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This position is within the Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) Community Mental Health Team. Secondments accepted and various hours. The MHSOP service comprises Community Mental Health Teams, a Nursing Home Team, a Psychiatric Liaison Team, Occupational Therapy services, a Memory Clinic, and two inpatient wards providing functional and organic mental health care. We are looking for a motivated, innovative, and critically minded practitioner to join our dedicated team. This is a rare opportunity, as clinicians who join the MHSOP service often choose to build long-term careers within the team. This reflects our supportive working environment, positive team culture, and shared commitment to delivering excellent care for our local community. We are committed to providing the highest quality, patient-focused, person-centred care through comprehensive assessment, care planning, and care coordination. You will work autonomously, demonstrating strong clinical assessment skills and the ability to develop and deliver effective, evidence-based care plans that address individual patient needs while proactively assessing and managing risk. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received. ### Main duties of the job As a Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for the assessment and management of service users presenting with complex mental health needs within the community. You will undertake comprehensive assessments of need, providing evidence-based interventions, advice, and support to service users, their families and carers, and other professionals involved in their care. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that high-quality, person-centred care is delivered in line with best practice. You will assess and manage clinical risk, coordinate care, and ensure that appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions are implemented in a timely manner to meet individual needs. You will contribute to the development, implementation, and regular review of personalised care plans, ensuring that care remains responsive to changing needs. Through ongoing assessment and risk management, you will work collaboratively with service users and partner agencies to support recovery and facilitate safe, effective discharge planning where appropriate. You will practise in accordance with the Trust's values. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To be responsible for the Assessment and Management of casework of service users who have substantial and complex needs. - Provide specialist clinical advice to Service Users/Carers, staff, statutory agencies, 3rd sector partner agencies and the public. - In collaboration with the Service User and Carer where appropriate, develop Recovery and Wellbeing focused Care Plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt Care Plan as necessary. - To consider Carer needs and ensure Carer and family are involved in Care Planning where appropriate. - To deliver evidenced based Clinical and Psychologically based Interventions. - The post holder will work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing and maximising independence. - Coordinate Treatment Planning & Interventions, Reviews and Discharge Planning. - Provide clinical supervision to staff as delegated by Team Manager. - To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity. - To incorporate a client centred philosophy into nursing practice and client centred collaborative care. - Work flexibly to meet the needs of Service Users across pathways which may regularly include working extended and flexible hours over 7 days a week. - Demonstrate flexibility in the role. This may involve working across clinical pathways to support the needs of the service, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality care at all times. - To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries. ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Previous qualified nurse experience dependent upon service need or 24 months post-registration as an AHP, Social Worker or psychologist. - Experience of working in a multi disciplinary team with patients who have mental health diagnosis. - It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role **Desirable** - Experience of working within older adults in a functional / organic mental health pathway - Experience of working in a community setting - Experience of working with patients who are experiencing a mental health crisis - Experience of undertaking audit - Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools - Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods - Experience of change management process ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Professional Qualification and current Professional Registration as, a First Level Registered Nurse (RNMH, RMN) or equivalent as an AHP, Social Worker or Clinical Psychologist - - Mentor Training - - Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/ psychological interventions / skills relevant to the post. - - Proven track record of post registration clinical experience relevant to the post. - - Training in Safeguarding, MAPPA (Multi Agency Panel for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults) and Child Protection - Up-to-date knowledge/experience of relevant legislation. **Desirable** - Post Registration Qualifications in Psychological Interventions - Experience of working within a community team - Non-Medical Prescribing ## Documents - [trust compact (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3037) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2867) - [northumbria privacy policy (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1899) - [nur1433-community mental health practitioner (pdf, 416.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10592196) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.