Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of working in multi-disciplinary mental health teams with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Experience
Experience of working with disengaged or hard to engage clients in a community setting
- Experience
Skills in risk assessment, crisis management and care delivery
- Experience
Knowledge of CPA process/ named worker principles and the relevant legislation that underpins mental health care.
- Experience
Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
- Experience
Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
- Experience
Can demonstrate understanding of complex psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
- Experience
Skills in psychosocial interventions
- Qualifications
Current professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing
- Qualifications
Registration must be live with a professional body such as NMC or other relevant body
- Qualifications
Evidence of post registration training and CPD
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Dual diagnosis/substance misuse
- Experience
Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Experience
Working with people who use substances
- Experience
Audit and research; Teaching
- Experience
Work with people experiencing mental health crisis
- Qualifications
Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
- Qualifications
Family Therapy/Work training
- Qualifications
Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for suitably qualified and experienced candidates who are registered with the NMC within our new Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service within the Borough of Ealing. Ealing is mobilising these new services bringing together the existing Community Rehabilitation teams alongside new investment to develop an assertive outreach pathway for service users with complex psychosis who need an assertive approach to engagement as part of their clinical presentation to provide care, treatment and support.
Successful candidates will show knowledge and experience of the clinical processes and treatments that support the care of people experiencing psychosis with complex needs. They will also demonstrate experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team setting; taking responsibility for assessing need and setting up robust care plans to support service user recovery. They will be able to take a flexible, robust and persistent approach to working alongside service users and their support networks to deliver care and get the greatest benefit from treatment.
Experience of working with complex mental health needs and high risk clients is essential as well as strong skills in risk assessment, care planning and crisis management. Experience of community based and outreach working is also essential.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be working in a Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service within the Assertive Outreach Pathway, taking responsibility to assessing, planning and coordinating the care plan and treatment of a defined caseload of service users with complex needs related to psychotic illnesses who are difficult to engage.
The Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service is a multidisciplinary, community-based service responsible for providing on-going holistic assessments, treatment and support to clients with severe and enduring mental illness living in the community. The service will enable patients with severe mental health problems to be supported and cared for in the community in the least restrictive setting through an assertive, personalised and integrated approach to care and treatment.
The service will provide an intensive community-based mental health service delivered in service users’ home environments, in the community and in supported living accommodation or other locations agreed with the service user utilising “A whole system approach” to recovery from mental ill health. The approach aims to maximise an individual’s quality of life and address social inclusion by supporting engagement, encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy in order to give them hope for the future which leads to successful community living through appropriate support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
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.
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This advert is for Mental Health Practitioner with West London NHS Trust in Southall, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health practitioner role. The advertised salary is £45,953 - £54,254 Per Annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Sep 2026.
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