Mental Health Practitioner
| Posting date: | 24 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 January 2026 |
| Location: | Countywide, PE1 1HF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-1113 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities 1. To support service users with their recovery journeys through collaborative goal setting with a range of priority health and social needs under the supervision of a senior member of the team. 2. To provide ongoing specialist assessments of adult service users referred to, and under the care of the Personality Disorder Pathway. 3. To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments alongside other team members. 4. To develop and implement plans for treatment, therapeutic intervention and/or management of a clients presentation. This done in partnership with the team. The treatment will normally fall within the broad remit of cognitive analytic therapies, but where appropriate other therapeutic approaches with proven efficacy may be offered. 5. To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. 6. To provide specialist professional advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for service users within Personality Disorder Pathway operating within Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, including work with service users deemed as vulnerable adults. 8. To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the service users needs, coordinating the work of others involved with their care, taking responsibility for arranging and documenting timely CPA reviews and assessments as required and communicating effectively with the service user, his/her carer/family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions. Following Trust CPA policy and guidance. 9. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to service users, family/carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of services under their care. 10. To ensure appropriate records of assessment and treatment are regularlymaintained which adhere to professional guidelines, CPA/Trust policy and recognised systems within the Personality Disorder Pathway.