Community Mental Health Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This post is suitable for newly qualified applicants and those who are to register in the next 3 months are welcome to apply. Full training and Preceptorship programme will be provided to help you build confidence and develop your career in this specialist area.

Are you a registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist at the beginning of your professional career, or looking to move into a community position?

Are you passionate about providing excellent care to older adults?

If so we have a permanent full time Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner at Alexander House, working in our Community Mental Health Team.

You will be an active member of our multidisciplinary team (MDT), working as a Key Worker, with a caseload which will be challenging at times, as well as rewarding. We will offer you the opportunity to work with a highly skilled and experienced MDT providing support, preceptorship, development opportunities and supervision for you, as well as excellent standards of care for our service users and carers.

We are an established team covering Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, working in peoples own homes and other care environments.

Please note that the standard working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm or 9am to 5pm, however flexible working can be considered.

Main duties of the job

We are committed to delivering high quality patient centred care and pride ourselves on great team working skills. It is therefore important that the successful candidate is a flexible team player and holds excellent interpersonal and communication skills to meet the needs of the patients, carers, families and the partners with whom we work.

As a Community Practitioner you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with older adults experiencing functional and/or organic mental health problems including their carers and families.

As a registered professional this is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their community clinical skills. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing ongoing assessment, care co-ordination as a Key Worker and delivering evidence based intervention in the community. You will demonstrate excellent assessment skills, interpersonal, and team working skills and be able to work flexibly and collaboratively with patients, families/ carers and a range of statutory organisations.

You will have an enthusiastic approach towards your own personal and professional development. In return, you will receive regular appraisal, clinical, management and caseload supervision and will benefit from the support of an experienced and committed multi-disciplinary leadership team, including the Team Manager and the three Advanced Practitioners.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Current professional registration with an approved body
  • Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to post
  • Trained Clinical Supervisor (within agreed timescale).
  • Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

  • Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

Experience

Essential

  • Working with people with mental ill-health

Desirable

  • Working in a community setting
  • Experience of working with older adult population
  • Working collaboratively with service users and their family/carers
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary team

Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence based knowledge of best practice of caring for service users in designated field
  • Understanding of relevant legislation e.g. MHA/MCA
  • Understanding of safeguarding and it’s application in practice
  • Awareness of risk assessment and it’s application in practice

Desirable

  • Awareness of psychological models of care and treatment

Skills

Essential

  • Communicate sensitive and complex information to service users, carers/family members and all members of the MDT
  • Works effectively as part of an MDT
  • Manage their own time and effective prioritisation of own workload

Desirable

  • Experience of undertaking lead professional and care coordination responsibilities

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need.

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: 11 October 2026

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