Job summary
An exciting opportunity for a secondment/ fixed post for a kind and experienced Senior Community Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated colleagues within the MHSOP Scarborough Community Mental Health Team.
This opportunity will allow the right person to gain experience working and supporting individuals in the community and support your continuing development within your career.
You will work alongside all members of the multi-disciplinary team which includes Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychology Assistants, Consultant Psychiatrists, medics, team admin and support workers. With access to and support from specialist services available in the trust, and excellent working relationships with local partner organisations.
If you are looking for an opportunity for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and are looking to be part of a team striving to make a difference and be involved with service development, we will welcome your application for this role.
The Practitioners are an integral part of the community pathway as well as working within the proposed 10-year plan with clear direction and goals of increasing care within the community and as a Practitioner they play a significant role in providing preventative measures and interventions working closely in a joined-up approach with our external health colleagues this will continually support reducing hospital admissions both to medical and mental health inpatient units.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner, you are an essential clinical role within the Community Mental Health Team. Band 6 staff are able to deliver the necessary enhanced and effective interventions to reduce the likelihood of acute and psychiatric admissions. They oversee the recovery journey of complex individuals requiring structured evidence-based interventions to enable a good quality of life within the community. They work closely with families and carers to ensure they also have the support available to avoid and reduce carer's stress.
As a Senior Practitioner you will play a significant role in providing preventative measures and interventions, working closely in a joined-up approach with our external partners, to achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life for people. Senior Practitioners conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments to formulate the needs and risks of patients who referred to the service.
The Practitioners help deliver and oversee pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, providing clinical supervision to CSW's. They provide clinically relevant updates via MDT and supervision, accessing wider services and support according to changing patient need. You will also be part of the duty worker rotation within the team.
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care - our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Details
Date posted
23 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-NYM-008-26-A
Job locations
Cross Lane Hospital
Cross Lane
Scarborough
YO12 6DN
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the main duties of this role please see attached job description, this will also include the person specifications.
Nursing candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the time of applying
This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
2. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
3. For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
4. 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
5. Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
6. Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable
7. Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
8. Leadership or management qualification
9. For registered nurses: Non- medical prescriber
Experience
Essential
10. Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
11. Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
12. Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
13. Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement. Working in a multi-disciplinary team
14. Working in a multi-disciplinary team
15. Quality improvement activities
Desirable
16. Leadership or management experience
Knowledge
Essential
17. Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
18. Understanding of relevant legislation (. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
19. Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
20. Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
21. Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
22. Clinical Governance and its application in practice
23. Research and development methodology
24. Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
Desirable
25. The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)
Skills
Essential
26. Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
27. Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
28. Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
29. Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
30. Write reports
31. Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
32. Use approved breakaway techniques.