Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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12-Month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity (30 hours per week)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join the Older People’s Community Mental Health Service on a 12-month fixed-term contract or secondment basis.
This new and innovative role will work across all localities within the service, supporting the coordination and delivery of Mental Health Act Section 117 reviews for older adults living in the community. Working alongside administrative colleagues and multidisciplinary teams, the post holder will play a key role in ensuring that statutory reviews are completed effectively, promoting high-quality, person-centred care.
The successful candidate will work closely with Responsible Clinicians, Clinical Leads, and wider multidisciplinary teams to coordinate reviews, contribute to care planning, and ensure accurate recording of key information within clinical systems. This initiative represents a new way of working and will be evaluated to assess its impact on service capacity, quality, and outcomes for service users and carers.
We are looking for a motivated practitioner who is able to work autonomously, is highly organised, and has excellent communication and liaison skills. The ability to prioritise workload, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and work in a self-directed manner is essential.
The successful applicant can choose their preferred base from one of our OPMH sites across CPFT.
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.
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Job Purpose
Senior Mental Health practitioners operate in an embedded Community Mental Health Team to provide assessment and interventions for people with significant mental health conditions
- To identify and focus on cases that are subject to Section 117 of MHA and the required annual reviews.
- Participate in MDT meetings and liaison with social care to ensure key information is recorded in S1 records.
- Work closely with the mental health integrated care team in order to provide an excellent mental health service.
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.
About Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
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Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Christine Robertson
- Job title: North Mental Health Area Manager
- Email address: Christine.Robertson@cpft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07789941199
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