# Senior Mental Health Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Hellesdon Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa/pro rata
- **Contract type:** 6 months (6 month secondment/ fixed term)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri - 9am-5pm)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-06T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25T10:00:46.128Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Bury_St_Edmunds/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Mental_Health_Practitioner/Senior_Mental_Health_Practitioner-v8252434
- **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Adult Community Mental Health Team based in Bury St Edmunds, are excited to welcome applications for a year long secondment from Senior Mental Health Practitioners (Nursing/OT/Social Work) with experience or keen interest in working with complex mental health conditions.

There are endless opportunities available, and we are keen to welcome new faces to join our team on a permanent basis. We understand that to attract the best people, we need to develop career pathways and support staff to reach their full potential.

Does this sound like something you could be interested in? Let’s talk about what opportunities are available to match your skills and experience!

### Main duties of the job

Working in a busy and dynamic Adult Community Mental Health Team means every day will be different. You will be involved in:

- Managing a complex caseload for those under The Care Programme Approach
- Undertaking initial urgent/routine assessments on behalf of the service
- Attending multi-disciplinary team meetings with our Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurse Consultants, Clinical Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals including Consultant Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists
- Attending outpatient clinic appointments
- Undertaking face to face visits in the community setting including home visits
- Working with service users and their families/carers to care plan holistic goal setting and engage in treatment planning and working in collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
- Medication administration (if qualified to do so) with opportunities to enrol in local university training programmes in medication management
- We also works with needs types and have many evidence based work books to enhance the Service user experience.
- Involved in the clinical leadership decisions as part of the senior leadership team to make sure that KPIs are met and team goals are being worked towards
- Supervision and mentorship of junior staff members

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We would welcome any informal conversations about these roles. Please do contact us for more information.

For further details regarding the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- The ability to use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and collaboratively

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions

**Desirable**

- Experience working in the specific area

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration

**Desirable**

- Recognised Leadership/Management training

## Documents

- [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863)
- [senior mental health practitioner (pdf, 384.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10565014)
- [values based recruitment – candidates guide (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1028)

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