Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner Join our neighbourhood-based community mental health teams, where integrated health and social care come together to support recovery and empower service users. As a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, you'll play a crucial role in delivering recovery-focused care through needs assessments, practical support, and evidence-based interventions. As a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner, you'll work as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, providing assessments, care coordination, and tailored interventions. Your role will focus on promoting sustainable, strengths-based recovery and reducing dependence on long-term services by enabling service users to take charge of their journey. This is more than a job - it's a chance to inspire and empower, working in an environment that values collaboration, innovation, and professional development. If you're passionate about recovery-focused care and want to make a meaningful difference, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on managing a caseload of complex mental health service users as a care coordinator using Care Program Approach
• Develop and implement person-centred care plans using evidence-based principles to meet individual needs.
• Facilitate smooth transitions between services, ensuring timely and effective support.
• Provide mentorship, supervision, and leadership to students.
• Actively contribute to service improvement, taking ownership of defined projects and responsibilities.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the job, please refer to the attached job Description and person specification attached to the vacancy profile

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of continual professional Development
• Trained Adult Safeguarding Enquiry officer or willing to undertake Enquiry Officer training.

Desirable

• Mentorship Training or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a relevant field in Mental Health.
• Experience of hospital or community caseload management.
• Experience in working with a diverse community in a complex environment.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-Professional or multi agency team
• Experience of conducting holistic psycho-social assessments and providing comprehensive care and support plans based on individual need.

Desirable

• Experience of working within an NHS/Local Authority environment and an understanding of the issues/ policies/ practice within these environments.

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 and how the act is used in practice.
• Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and how the act is used to support service users and carers / relatives
• Knowledge and understanding of the Care Act 2014 and how the is Act implemented within care provision.
• Understanding of the principles of CPA and the Recovery Model.
• Up to date knowledge of the current approaches to mental health nursing.
• Up to date knowledge of the issues that impact individuals and carers affected by mental health and or cognitive impairment.
• Knowledge and understanding of approaches to risk assessment and management.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to prioritise workload.
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to work autonomously and independently.
• Ability to be innovative in practice. Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Good IT skills.
• Ability to engage with people with serious mental health problems in a holistically

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Isle of Dogs Neighborhood Mental health team

121 WestFerry Road Barkentine clinic,

London

E14 8JH

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