# Senior Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/eae45d16-0da6-4cba-ae5f-214e76d815ef - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/eae45d16-0da6-4cba-ae5f-214e76d815ef.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Norwich - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 gross per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent: 1 x full time post (37.5 hrs per week) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Core hours 0900 - 1700 (Monday - Friday)) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-14T08:42:29.337Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Ipswich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Mental_Health_Adults/Community_Mental_Health_Adults-v8127563 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8127563?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We currently have a substantive Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner post within Coastal Adult CMHT open to applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists. The team is based in East Ipswich and covers the area from East Ipswich through to rural areas of Felixstowe, Leiston and Aldeburgh.  We are a recovery focussed, multi-disciplinary team providing an effective, supportive, and professional service for our Services users and Carers. You will be a qualified professional with experience of supporting people and their families, preferably in the community. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of your role as a Care Coordinator/Assessor and join our dedicated multidisciplinary team working closely with a range of partners to provide appropriate community interventions for those individuals referred to the team. We are looking for people to join us to continue to build on an already successful service. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams.  We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience. Every individual makes a valuable contribution in the team. We are proud of our staff, and we are looking for people to join us in continuing to develop what the service of Coastal CMHT looks like. ### Main duties of the job You can expect a manageable case load and a supportive management team to ensure you’re able to work independently but support is never far away if needed. The typical job roles and responsibilities will include: - Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team. - Undertake initial assessments. - Liaise with statutory and voluntary sectors - The successful candidate will be an integral part of this team. You will contribute to meetings both within the service and in wider networks. - Effective personal planning and organisation of daily workload. - Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands. - Managing and providing a high quality of care. - Managing a case load of patient that have a range of mental health needs. - Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred. - Participating in the duty rota - Practicing in line with policy, guidance and legislation. - Carrying out risk assessment, crisis and safety planning. - Working closely with the ACS mental health team to support our patients, meeting both their mental health needs and their Care Act needs. - To support patients in being discharged back to primary care. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post will involve you working autonomously in the community. You  will engage with people, and using effective communication, often in difficult and stressful circumstances. You will be undertaking initial assessments, introducing services, making referrals to appropriate agencies, and monitoring and supporting situations to achieve positive outcomes for our service users and carers. You will be supported within your practice via a helpful team. **Valid Driving Licence for the UK is required for this role.** **Previous Applicants Need Not Apply** Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to travel independently ### Skills **Essential** - Competent assessment skills - Competent and effective treatment skills **Desirable** - Prevention and Management of Suicide training - Medicine Management Safeguarding training ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects - Knowledge of psychosocial interventions ### Experience **Essential** - Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions - Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages **Desirable** - Experience in delivering group based interventions ### Qualifications **Essential** - Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent - Ongoing professional development working towards degree level **Desirable** - Good to great management course, or equivalent ## Documents - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [senior band 6 jd mental health practitioner (pdf, 347.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10424454) - [values based recruitment – candidates guide (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1028) ## 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.