Senior Mental Health Practitioner (NURSE)

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job description

Devon Partnership NHS Trust is looking for an experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Nurse) to join our University Community Mental Health Team at the Reed Mews Wellbeing Centre in Exeter.

This exciting opportunity offers a 30-hour per week role, where you will have a vital impact on delivering high-quality, comprehensive mental health services to Exeter University students with complex needs.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for managing a defined caseload, delivering expert assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health difficulties and their carers. A key part of the role is the design and coordination of personalised treatment packages that are recovery-focused and aligned with payment by results. You will also provide statutory Adult Social Care functions, including assessment, care planning, and reviewing.

Your work will involve liaising with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies, ensuring integrated, holistic care for service users. In addition to your clinical responsibilities, you will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision to other team members and participating in the development and evaluation of services.

NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality, comprehensive mental health services to individuals with complex needs and their carers.
• Manage a defined caseload, providing expert assessments and treatment planning.
• Design, coordinate, and evaluate recovery-focused, personalised treatment packages.
• Provide statutory Adult Social Care functions, including assessment, care planning, and reviews.
• Liaise with statutory and non-statutory agencies to ensure coordinated, integrated care for service users.
• Contribute to the clinical leadership of the team by offering supervision and support to other team members.
• Participate in team development, service evaluation, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

About us

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.

Other

• Ability to be mobile across a geographical area to meet the requirements of the role.

Experience

• Substantial experience of managing a extensive and complex caseload of clients with a range of complex mental health problems.
• Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
• Providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Participation in user involvement in services.

Qualifications

• A professional mental health qualification (RMN) and registered with NMC.
• Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism.
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.

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.

£37,388 to £44,962 a year pro rata (30 hours per week).