Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | Donnington, TF2 8JT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | K0003-25-0215 |
Summary
Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to: Receiving, appraising, and advising on the direct referrals for mental health problems from relevant General Practitioners/Medical Officers GP/MO. Providing initial assessment and formulation of the mental health and treatment needs for referred patients, planning, implementing, and evaluating care with a high level of autonomy. Delivering up to date, evidence-based interventions for mental health problems based on guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Treatment Agency (NTA), which can include individual, group and tele-therapy. Ability to carry out comprehensive mental health assessments and make decisions about ways to positively manage risk Ability to devise creative and effective care packages of support for adult mental health, communicating effectively with clients/patients and professionals, both orally and in writing Effective time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, planning own workload Ability to work flexibly in response to the developing needs of the service Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for role requirements in further detail. To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application. Selection Process At application stage you will be assessed again the following: The selection at sift stage will be based solely on your CV application. Please ensure you fully demonstrate your knowledge,skills and experience. Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert. When choosing your Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected. At interview you will be assessed again the following: NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing At interview, you will also be required to provide a presentation or vignette , the subject of which will be provided to candidates being invited to interview. Further Information: The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed. Travel to interview costs will not be reimbursed. All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. We will consider requests to work flexibly, taking into account business needs. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken. There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home. Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate. If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn. This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. For more information copy and paste the following into your browser or search gov.uk: Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. 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