Community Mental Health Practitioner
| Posting date: | 08 July 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 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS12 3QE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9173-25-0259 |
Summary
This post will provide a trauma-informed service for people experiencing poor mental health who are housed within SHAP accommodations. The Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service (RSMHS) is a small multi-disciplinary team that consists of a Clinical Team Manager, Principal Psychological Therapist, Consultant Psychiatrist, Mental Health Practitioner, Community Support Worker and an Administrator. The team works work closely with partner services who also support rough sleepers, including Forward Leeds drug and alcohol service, Community Mental Health Teams, Leeds City Council, York Street GP practice and third sector street support services. The RSMHS is expanding due to an exciting new opportunity to be involved in a partnership with Leeds City Council and other organisations to deliver the Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme (SHAP). SHAP aims to accommodate some of the most entrenched rough sleepers in Leeds, through providing both appropriate accommodation and significant housing and healthcare support for residents. You will work with the support of the wider RSMHS team, with a focus on supporting adults who are accommodated in SHAP housing alongside the SHAP Senior Psychological Professional and a young persons SHAP Mental Health Practitioner. With access to appropriate clinical and management supervision, you will be able to demonstrate and practice a range of appropriate skills to include assessment (including risk assessment), formulation, safety planning and clinical interventions. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience of working as a qualified Mental Health Nurse/ Social Worker/ Occupational Therapist, including post-qualification experience relevant to the specialty. You will have experience of working with people who are homeless, socially excluded and/or otherwise difficult for services to engage through traditional means. The service operates Monday to Friday, and the hours can be flexible, depending on the needs of the post-holder, the service, and the client group. There may be a small requirement to work some evening hours, to meet service users needs. You will need to have the ability to travel between work bases around the Leeds area. This job role description sets out in generic terms the role and competencies needed to be a band 6 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner in the Trust. A more detailed job plan will be provided to the post holder specific to the Rough Sleepers mental health service. To work closely with the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) in overseeing efficiency and effectiveness of treatment given and support the CTM in carrying out his/her duties. To present as a positive and professional role model to all staff within the unit, striving to maintain a philosophy of service user involvement in continuously improving the service To work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day to day service provision. Band 6 Practitioner work with a defined caseload of service users and usually as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery. This will include the provision of highly skilled nursing care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion. Band 6 practitioner posts within a community setting will be required to: work autonomously, manage caseloads, undertake initial assessments and carry out home based treatment interventions.