Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation TrustHarrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust based in Harrogate. The advertised salary is £39,959 to £48,117. Applications close on 11 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Harrogate and Ripon Community Treatment Team based in Harrogate. The post would be an ideal develop...
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their leadership and clinical skills in a community setting. As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, mostly providing assessments, care co-ordination and delivering intervention in the community with people who have complex needs ranging from mild to moderate level of need to severe and enduring level of need and complexity.
You will demonstrate excellent assessment and analysis skills, interpersonal, communication and team working skills. You will need to be committed to working collaboratively with a range of statutory and third sector agencies to promote holistic wellbeing and recovery focused care.
The Integrated Community Team is a lively, dynamic, and supportive multi-disciplinary team committed to collaboration and joint working. You will support the team's improvement activities for co-creation, aiming to deliver care that is highly personalised to each individual's needs and working closely with families, paid and unpaid carers.
You will be encouraged and supported to bring your skills and experience to contribute to our team and locality's service development and continuous improvement and innovation endeavours.
The team are committed to providing excellent evidence-based quality care to the adult population. It is imperative that the successful candidate has a flexible pro-active approach to their person-centred practice.
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.
Essential: - Current professional registration with an approved professional body.; - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.; - 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.; - 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework. (at the point of application); - Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.; - Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable: - Leadership or management qualification; - Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Essential: - Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.; - Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.; - Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.; - Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement.; - Working in a multi-disciplinary team; - Quality improvement activities
Desirable: - Leadership or management experience; - Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.
Essential: - Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.; - Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).; - Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.; - Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice; - Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.; - Clinical Governance and its application in practice.; - Research and development methodology.; - Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
Desirable: - The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS
How this role compares
We hold 746 NHS vacancies in Yorkshire and the Humber that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role sits close to the middle of the range.
There are 12,785 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,074 of them in Yorkshire and the Humber.
You have 8 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 59 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust has 68 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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