Community Mental Health Practitioner

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.
• We are looking for 3  dedicated staff to help us pioneer this revolutionary approach to care.
• 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