Job summary
- Main area
- Thanet CMHT
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK406
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Thanet MHT Plus, The Beacon, Ramsgate
- Town
- Ramsgate
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
We are seeking a Community Mental Health Practitioner who is a key clinical leader within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess, plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence and drive change and promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.
The Community Mental Health Practitioner will be professionally accountable to the Executive Director of Nursing, and operationally
accountable to the Service Manager/Matron.
Job holders must be able to work competently in a challenging environment and be able to react to changing care demands whilst demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients.
This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment
• To deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery
• To act as a clinical leader supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance
• To facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Supporting patients to function to their optimal ability in their environment. This will range from encouraging self-care to providing total physical care depending on the needs of the patient.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
Person specification
Training Qualifications & Registration
Essential criteria
- RMN/RNLD with NMC registration, or OT with Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), completed preceptorship and practice assessor training.
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience at Band 5. Evidence of post qualifying continued learning.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- To have sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act, and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care in the community..
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Godfrey Buwu
- Job title
- Operational Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01843855200
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