Senior Mental Health Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £28,935.00 i £30,813.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £28935.00 - £30813.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Horsham, RH12 1AB |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | F0052-CAFHE06226 |
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You will lead psychological and systemic formulation work to support practitioners in understanding mentalhealth needs, emotional risk, family dynamics, and wider contextual influences. You will provide expert interpretation of complex, often ambiguous information to guide planning and bring clarity where uncertainty exists. You will support social work teams in shaping assessments that integrate mentalhealth needs, patterns of distress, family functioning, and recoveryoriented principles. You will offer expert professional advice when situations feel stuck, unsafe, conflicting, or unclear, helping practitioners identify safe, purposeful next steps. You will support collaborative planning with social care, education, health, youth offending, and voluntarysector partners. You will influence multiagency decisionmaking in circumstances where emotional distress, risk indicators, or system complexity are high. You will promote psychologically informed practice across multiagency teams, encouraging shared understanding, reflective thinking, and joinedup planning. You will provide workbased supervision to Emotional Support Workers and Child and Family Workers within the Horizon Suicide Prevention Team, supporting their confidence, skills, and reflective capacity. You will rolemodel reflective practice, evidenceinformed thinking, curiosity, and emotionally intelligent leadership. You will contribute to servicewide development, practiceimprovement activity, thematic learning, and the strengthening of suicideprevention practice across the service. You will deliver workforce training on suicide prevention, emotionalsafety planning, selfharm, sleep, anxiety, emotional regulation, and traumainformed approaches. You will support practitioners in identifying, analysing, and escalating safeguarding concerns, ensuring thoughtful, lawful, and timely responses. You will maintain high standards of recordkeeping, professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical conduct. You will actively promote organisational values and contribute to a culture of reflective, compassionate, and evidenceinformed practice. You will be an experienced, reflective practitioner with: Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to develop rich, multilayered formulations. Expertise in mentalhealth presentations in young people, including mood disorders, traumarelated difficulties, selfharm, suicidality, and eating disorders. An understanding of young people who have experienced inpatient mentalhealth treatment, including associated discharge planning needs. The ability to lead psychologically informed conversations that guide social-care, education, and health professionals. The ability to recognise and articulate complexity, including contradictory information, fluctuating risk indicators, and multiagency dilemmas. Emotional resilience and the ability to maintain clarity of thought in highpressure situations. Strong leadership behaviours consistent with an advanced practitioner, including rolemodelling, coaching, and influencing. A commitment to antiracist, antioppressive, and traumainformed practice.