Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-OPAC-7987252
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City Care Centre
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
We are currently looking to recruit a motivated and experienced Band 6 Senior Mental Health (MH) Practitioner to join our Peterborough City Older People’s Community Mental Health Team. This is a great opportunity to join our effective and friendly team working with a client group with more complex mental health needs.
You will be part of a team comprising of Mental Health Practitioners and Support Workers. Working closely with Psychologists, OT and Psychiatrists thus enabling effective coordinated care delivery.
We provide service-user focused, evidence-based interventions for people aged 65 and over living in their own homes/care homes with either functional or organic mental health illness. We provide high quality assessment, treatment, and care coordination which is informed by your professional bodies and National policy.
The post has opportunities to develop skills and knowledge via training, working alongside experienced practitioners and to be involved in service improvement.
You will mainly be covering the city of Peterborough but may also cover other areas of Peterborough as needed, so regular travel is required. Successful applicants will need to have a drivers license and access to a vehicle for work.
The post is based at City Care Centre, Peterborough. CPFT supports agile working, with flexibility for work-life balance. Visits to the team are welcome. There is parking and a café onsite.
Main duties of the job
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
As a practitioner in the team you will act as a Care Co-ordinator for people who use the service and promote carer involvement in the delivery of care with service user consent.
You will manage a caseload of service users, delivering a diverse range of clinical skills and building a therapeutic and recovery based relationship. We seek to empower service users to actively engage in their recovery journey, working toward an effective discharge and utilising third sector support where needed.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure at times, and with a desire for innovation.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Mental Health practitioners will provide assessment and interventions for people with significant mental health conditions such as dementias, depression, psychotic illness and personality disorders.
- Offer training, advice and guidance to colleagues on common mental health conditions.
- Participate in MDT meetings and ensure key information is recorded in shared care plans
- Work closely with the mental health integrated care team in order to provide an excellent mental health service.
- Clinical Assessment of mental health needs.
- Assessment and management of risk.
- Participating in a duty rota to offer on call support and advice to service users and their carers.
- Holistic care planning and co-producing crisis plans with service users, keeping service users and their families at the heart of the intervention.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional registered qualification (Registered mental health nurse, Social Worker or Occupational therapist)
- Training in supervision and appraisal
Desirable criteria
- Post qualifying training
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant experience in working within a mental health service
- Experience of working with older people with mental health needs
- Experience of clinical and managerial supervision of junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with an older people’s community mental health service.
- Have a lived experience of mental health challenges
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
- Ability to sit for sustained periods of time
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Excellent clinical skill in assessment and interventions for common mental health conditions
- Excellent communication skills and ability to summarise information and communicate with colleagues
- Excellent understanding of statutory framework and care commissioning including: safeguarding, commissioning of care and Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity act
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with nursing home and care providers
- Experience as safeguarding lead
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Clarke
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Mental Health Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03308080765
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