# Community Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-practitioner/688746bc-b7d0-4537-a3ad-b3f419336f91 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-practitioner/688746bc-b7d0-4537-a3ad-b3f419336f91.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-27T14:10:51.914Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Hither_Green/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8103025 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8103025?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - Are you passionate about reshaping mental health care? Do you believe in the power of community, collaboration with community partners and local voluntary care sector, inclusion, and peer support to transform lives? We’re launching an innovative community care centre inspired by world-class models like the Trieste Mental Health Community Network, Navigo in Grimsby, and Clubhouse models in New York and Brixton. - We have an incredibly exciting and rare opportunity to be part of a new community mental health pilot. This centre will hold a major national profile with NHS England who are hoping that the pilot will radically transform how we deliver mental health care in the UK. · - What We Offer - A Unique Care Model: Join a programme focused on community, social inclusion, and holistic recovery. - Supportive Environment: Collaborate with peers, contribute to a recovery-oriented care system, and make a real difference. - Development Opportunities: Be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of mental health care, with training and career growth built-in. ### Main duties of the job As a Registered Mental Health Professional, you will provide care to service users/patients and coordinate the care delivered by colleagues. The post holder will deliver high‑quality, safe care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence in line with the relevant professional code of conduct and standards of practice. The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessments, planning, implementation, and evaluation of person‑centred care in a collaborative manner. The post holder will coordinate a high‑quality service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, maintaining service users’ rights, supervising junior staff and students, working collaboratively with the Multi‑Disciplinary Team, and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment with accurate and timely records. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We are seeking to employ enthusiastic candidate who has relevant experience. Key Responsibilities: - Assisting to deliver safe discharge or transfer of patient to other services, - Making Referrals to: Crisis and Home Treatment Team, Other community Mental Health services, Social care, Peer support, Community support, Drug and alcohol/gambling support and Carer support. - You are required to uphold professional conduct as required in delivering safe care to all patient regardless of patient’s gender, ethnicity, and their personal belief. - To adopt a client centred approach embodied with the principles of the recovery model. To provide low intensity CBT and Mindfulness interventions under supervision. To provide psychoeducation to services users. To co-facilitate, where agreed, therapeutic groups with a focus on service user rehabilitation reintegration and social inclusion. Undertake any other duties that are commensurate with the band and nature of the post ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user’s needs, without close supervision. - Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations. - Able to work Autonomously within your job duty/responsibility and professional boundaries. - Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others. - Approachable and forms very effective working relationships with colleagues. Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice - Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation - Flexibility to work a shift pattern of 8am - 8pm across a 7 day service **Desirable** - 1 year experience and above with no preceptorship programme pending. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered mental health professional ### Other Requirements **Essential** - Empathy for service users including individuals who have experienced mental health problems. - Loyal and able to advocate for and show pride in the work area and organization and demonstrates values of trust and NHS - Ability to fulfil all the requirements of the role (including physical) ## Documents - [band 6 jd mhp n2 (pdf, 584.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10448497) - [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341) - [happy to talk flexible working (pdf, 680.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1723) ## 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.