Safer Neighbourhood Service - Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

The Safer Neighbourhood Service (SNS) is an established, multi-agency service embedded at the heart of Rotherham’s public protection and vulnerability landscape. The service has evolved to meet increasing complexity across criminal justice, safeguarding, public health and community systems. It has become instrumental in supporting the management of high-risk, high-demand individuals within the borough.

We are now seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join this service.

The SNS is co-located with South Yorkshire Police and works with Adult Social Care, Probation, Public Health, housing services and a wide range of voluntary and third-sector organisations. The service provides expert mental health advice, assessment, formulation and risk management across multiple forums and pathways.

It is a service that operates where traditional boundaries meet. The SNS supports individuals who are often experiencing severe mental illness, complex trauma, personality difficulties, exploitation, offending behaviour, self-neglect or chronic vulnerability. Many are high-frequency callers, subject to safeguarding processes or multi-agency risk management frameworks.

As the Mental Health Practitioner, you will work alongside the Clinical Lead to provide specialist mental health expertise across a range of multi-agency contexts. You will bring comprehensive assessment skills, curiosity and confident decision-making into environments that require both clinical and systemic awareness.

Main duties of the job

The role includes:

• The completion of comprehensive assessments
• Contributing to complex, sometimes high-risk forensic cases
• Providing triage, consultation and liaison to numerous agencies
• Representing mental health services within multi-agency forums
• Contributing to suicide prevention strategy, real-time surveillance panels and postvention responses
• Delivering training to partner agencies on mental health, risk, suicide prevention and trauma-informed approaches

The role requires sound professional judgement and the ability to translate clinical information into clear plans for other agencies.

You will bring:

• Experience of working with complex presentations
• Confidence in risk assessment and dynamic risk management
• Knowledge of the MHA, MCA and Safeguarding frameworks
• Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter-agency collaboration
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills
• The ability to work independently within demanding contexts
• Emotional resilience and reflective capacity

This post offers offers:

• Influence across health, criminal justice and safeguarding networks
• Exposure to complex and challenging cases within the borough
• Development in advanced risk assessment and multi-agency leadership
• Opportunities to shape local suicide prevention and vulnerability strategies
• A role embedded within innovation, partnership and service transformation.

Experience of working alongside criminal justice agencies would be advantageous, though not essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications