NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner
Join our dedicated Waltham Forest Mental Health & Wellness Team Central, based at the Jane Atkinson Centre. This permanent role offers a salary within Band 6 and involves working 37.5 hours per week. The chance to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals experiencing diverse mental health and wellbeing needs.
About North East London NHS Foundation Trust
At North East London NHS Foundation Trust, we are committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care that supports recovery and wellbeing. Our values focus on compassion, respect, and inclusivity, and we strive to create a supportive environment for both staff and service users. We actively promote equality, diversity, and inclusion within our workforce and are dedicated to ensuring everyone feels valued and respected.
Job Overview
The post holder will play a key role in assessing needs, planning and delivering interventions, and supporting individuals to improve their mental health, resilience, and overall wellbeing. You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure a holistic approach to care, promoting recovery, independence and reducing reliance on secondary services.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care.
This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, flexible, and passionate about improving access to mental health support within the community, while contributing to continuous service development and innovation.
Main duties of the job
- Working as part of our multi-disciplinary team and coordinating a caseload of service users that have complex and challenging needs.
- As a nurse, you will have the opportunity to work within the wellness clinic to deliver physical and mental health interventions.
- Good IT skills and knowledge of using electronic recording systems are required.
- Willingness to work flexibly within the demands of the service.
- Work closely within a multi-disciplinary team and other agencies to deliver recovery focused health and social care interventions that includes managing risk and the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Provide managerial supervision to junior colleagues, mentor MDT students and participate in ongoing educational and research programmes.
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Specific duties include:
- Organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.
- Deputising when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.
- Having organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
- Providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- Ensuring effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
- Supervising pre-registration students.
- Employing professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
- Providing a range of intervention and assessment of patients, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration the patient’s physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify the patient’s abilities and areas of difficulty.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
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Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement Outer London (B&D, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest, CEME)
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Working for Us
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.
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