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Mental Health Practitioner
| Posting date: | 13 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: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Yeovil, BA20 2BN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9184-25-0987 |
Summary
You will be a qualified and registered mental health professional (RMN, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist) with experience in community mental health services. The role is highly autonomous and ideal for someone who enjoys remote work, fast-paced clinical environments, and a mix of triage, risk assessment, and therapeutic communication. You will: Provide timely, compassionate support to people experiencing mental health difficulties, often at points of heightened distress. Use your clinical judgment to assess and manage risk, offering tailored interventions to stabilise and support individuals. Communicate effectively with service users and professionals, including GPs, voluntary agencies, and crisis teams. Act as a senior clinical presence on the support line, helping shape safe and effective responses to urgent and routine contacts. Participate in team meetings, reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement activities. Support a culture of continuous improvement, learning and collaborative practice within the team. This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician with strong assessment, triage, and telephone-based communication skills who values innovation, flexibility, and teamwork.