Community Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

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Community Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 10 February 2026

Band 5 role with development plan to move to band 6 on completion.

Calderdale Core pathway is a large pathway which comprises nurses, social workers, support workers, psychologists, and medical staff. As team members we operate to new ways of working. The Core pathway works with different types of service users. People within general core pathway will be offered short term brief focused interventions before they are discharged back to primary care. The treatment team and nurse led clinics offer longer term support and interventions to people with SMI, which will include both mental health and physical health monitoring.

This post will sit within the Calderdale Core pathway; general work with service users who have mental health problems and need short term brief interventions.

A key role in this pathway will be to work closely as part of a team and create positive relationships with GPs.

For informal enquiries or to arrange a visit contact Kim Gregory, Team Manager - Calderdale core pathway on /262378.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

• Hold a caseload of service users providing short term brief interventions such as DBT type skills (training provided), CBT, anxiety management, stabilisation skills and also provide care to service users with longer term mental health problems alongside physical health monitoring.
• Provide support to service users that is tailored to their needs.
• Complete outreach visits to service users who are unable to come independently into clinic and/or facilitate supporting service users into clinic.
• Work with service users to find the best plan of care for their needs.
• Help service users stay mentally and physically well and work towards an optimum level of recovery including liaising with GPs and other health care providers.
• To work closely with GPs, physical healthcare providers, partner organisations.

At the time of advertising, this role does not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. For this reason, we are unable to sponsor anyone for a skilled worker visa for this role.

We are happy to accept applications from candidates who can prove their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes. Such applications will be considered alongside all other applications.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we’re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

JOB SUMMARY

JOB PURPOSE: The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of skilled interventions to address identified needs and risk…