# Safer Neighbourhood Service - Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safer-neighbourhood-service-mental-health-practitioner/e097a5fa-2a96-4760-8ed2-b129e0cd6cce - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safer-neighbourhood-service-mental-health-practitioner/e097a5fa-2a96-4760-8ed2-b129e0cd6cce.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Doncaster - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-29T09:52:49.298Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Rotherham/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8044852 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8044852?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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 ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Access to transport and the ability to travel between the required geographical area. - Demonstrable interpersonal resilience. - Work in accordance with the Trust Values - Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families - Ability to use own initiative when needed and to make decisions independently and with integrity - Committed to continual quality and service improvement. - Self-motivated, resourceful and resilient in challenging situations. - Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision - Ability to understand the expectations and competing demands of numerous different external agencies and services ### Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision, largely as a lone worker - Knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice - Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach - Report-writing skills. - IT skills. - Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team. - Excellent assessment skills, including risk assessment, to provide nurse led treatment planning. - Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning. - Detailed understanding of Safeguarding. - Good knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act. **Desirable** - Psychological therapy skills, e.g., CBT/DBT/ACT. - Ability to work in a changing environment - Ability to elaborate on the translation of personal and professional skills into practice. - Knowledge and understanding of the roles of external agencies working within the SNS and that the SNS works into. - Experience or knowledge of the criminal justice system and its associated processes. ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable post registration experience within Adult Mental Health Services. - Experience working with patients with complex needs and high risk behaviours. - Experience of working in the community. Experience of MDT working. Experience of delivering evidence-based treatments. - Skills in coordinating and planning inter-agency approaches in mental health care. - Experience of assessing and managing risk. - Experience of working with statutory and non-statutory agencies both internally and externally. - Experience of delivering evidence-based treatments. **Desirable** - Experience of working within a range of services. - Experience of providing clinical supervision. ### Educational Qualifications & Vocational Training **Essential** - RMN/RNLD current professional registration with NMC or Registered Social Worker with Social Work England. - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development inclusive of applicable external training. - Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma, specialist training, experience, short courses or specialist training. - Development inclusive of applicable external training. **Desirable** - Formal Risk Assessment Training - Clinical Leadership Qualification ## Documents - [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515) - [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789) - [jd & ps safer neighbourhood service - mental health practitioner (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333549) - [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919) ## 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.