MH Community Practitioner / Care Co-ordinator

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

This is a full time post.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to employ a full-time Mental Health
Practitioner within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team. This role will focus
on the delivery of population based mental health care for the community of
Bromsgrove. You will be working alongside a team of highly specialist
practitioners and have direct relationships with the professionals within the
local Primary Care Networks (PCN). If you are seeking a role that will
encompass new ways of working that will be the future delivery of community
mental health care in England, then this is an opportunity you should not miss.
Consideration will be made for flexible working and there may be some
opportunities for staff members to work from home where clinically possible.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of a Mental
Health Community Practitioner within our team includes (but not limited to):

Completing assessments on
patients referred within the East Hereford Locality. Referrals would typically
come from GPs, however, may also come from internally within the trust or other
agencies.

Holding a caseload of patients
with a range of mental health illnesses and providing treatment to these
individuals using evidence-based interventions as appropriate.

To develop care plans with
patients and the MDT, to the utilise these care plans to support them in
recovery.

To be able to risk assess and
risk manage patients in response to their current needs.

To take part in the duty system
and act appropriately when dealing with patients who are experiencing
difficulties in the absence of their allocated worker.

Receive clinical and managerial
supervision regularly, and to also supervise and support junior members within
the team.

Person Specification

Other Qualities

Essential

  • Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a Mental Health setting
  • Assessment of people presenting with mental health problems
  • Assessment and management of clinical risk
  • Working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Managing own case load

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification relating to Health or Social Care e.g. in social work, nursing, OT with current professional registration
  • RMN, BSc/DipSW, BSc OT
  • Recent evidence of continuing professional development
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of principles of assessment of people with mental health problems
  • Knowledge of principles of risk assessment and management
  • Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2006 and other relevant legislation

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
  • Ability to praise and be supportive to others
  • Delivery of evidence based interventions in mental health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 29 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.