Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
Location: Newton Abbot, TQ12 4PH
Salary: £38682.00 to £46580.00
Date posted: 9th July 2025
Closing date: 27th July 2025
We are currently looking for highly motivated, experienced and innovative Band 6 Psychiatric Nurse, Mental Health Social Workers or Occupational Therapist to join our CMHT for a 6 month fixed term / secondment period.
Teign Core Mental Health Team are a dynamic, nurturing and supportive team where there is excellent peer support and opportunity for development. You will have a reasonably sized caseload and will also support our assessment function as well.
You will be involved in training, mentoring, and supervising new and unregistered staff as well as providing front-line clinical care, as well as working alongside our colleagues in primary care and the VCSE
Main duties of the job
Teign Core Mental Health Team provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families.
You will need to be able to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, with a desire to continue their development as the team grows.
You will also need good assessment and communication skills.
There will be lots of shadowing/training opportunities to help you develop in the role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
Our values
We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader Employer.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in a mental health setting
* Assessment of people presenting with mental health issues
* Assessment and management of clinical risk
* Working within a multi-disciplinary team
* Working in a primary care setting
* Working in collaboration with VCSE services
* Training/developing staff and or patients
* Experience of delivering evidenced based psycho/social interventions
Qualifications
* Hold a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social worker Professional qualification
* Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience
* Diploma level specialist training or equivalent experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Teaching/training qualification
* Psychological therapy qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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