Job summary
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner Join our neighbourhood-based community mental health teams, where integrated health and social care come together to support recovery and empower service users. As a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, you'll play a crucial role in delivering recovery-focused care through needs assessments, practical support, and evidence-based interventions. As a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner, you'll work as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, providing assessments, care coordination, and tailored interventions. Your role will focus on promoting sustainable, strengths-based recovery and reducing dependence on long-term services by enabling service users to take charge of their journey. This is more than a job - it's a chance to inspire and empower, working in an environment that values collaboration, innovation, and professional development. If you're passionate about recovery-focused care and want to make a meaningful difference, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead on managing a caseload of complex mental health service users as a care coordinator using Care Program Approach
- Develop and implement person-centred care plans using evidence-based principles to meet individual needs.
- Facilitate smooth transitions between services, ensuring timely and effective support.
- Provide mentorship, supervision, and leadership to students.
- Actively contribute to service improvement, taking ownership of defined projects and responsibilities.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job, please refer to the attached job Description and person specification attached to the vacancy profile
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job, please refer to the attached job Description and person specification attached to the vacancy profile
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of continual professional Development
- Trained Adult Safeguarding Enquiry officer or willing to undertake Enquiry Officer training.
Desirable
- Mentorship Training or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a relevant field in Mental Health.
- Experience of hospital or community caseload management.
- Experience in working with a diverse community in a complex environment.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-Professional or multi agency team
- Experience of conducting holistic psycho-social assessments and providing comprehensive care and support plans based on individual need.
Desirable
- Experience of working within an NHS/Local Authority environment and an understanding of the issues/ policies/ practice within these environments.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 and how the act is used in practice.
- Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and how the act is used to support service users and carers / relatives
- Knowledge and understanding of the Care Act 2014 and how the is Act implemented within care provision.
- Understanding of the principles of CPA and the Recovery Model.
- Up to date knowledge of the current approaches to mental health nursing.
- Up to date knowledge of the issues that impact individuals and carers affected by mental health and or cognitive impairment.
- Knowledge and understanding of approaches to risk assessment and management.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to work autonomously and independently.
- Ability to be innovative in practice. Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Good IT skills.
- Ability to engage with people with serious mental health problems in a holistically
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of continual professional Development
- Trained Adult Safeguarding Enquiry officer or willing to undertake Enquiry Officer training.
Desirable
- Mentorship Training or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a relevant field in Mental Health.
- Experience of hospital or community caseload management.
- Experience in working with a diverse community in a complex environment.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-Professional or multi agency team
- Experience of conducting holistic psycho-social assessments and providing comprehensive care and support plans based on individual need.
Desirable
- Experience of working within an NHS/Local Authority environment and an understanding of the issues/ policies/ practice within these environments.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 and how the act is used in practice.
- Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and how the act is used to support service users and carers / relatives
- Knowledge and understanding of the Care Act 2014 and how the is Act implemented within care provision.
- Understanding of the principles of CPA and the Recovery Model.
- Up to date knowledge of the current approaches to mental health nursing.
- Up to date knowledge of the issues that impact individuals and carers affected by mental health and or cognitive impairment.
- Knowledge and understanding of approaches to risk assessment and management.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to work autonomously and independently.
- Ability to be innovative in practice. Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Good IT skills.
- Ability to engage with people with serious mental health problems in a holistically
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Isle of Dogs Neighborhood Mental health team
121 WestFerry Road Barkentine clinic,
London
E14 8JH
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
