Community Mental Health Practitioner – IMHT Cannock
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract until February 2027
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 – Community Mental Health Practitioner (Nurse/OT/Social Worker) to join our dynamic and friendly Integrated Mental Health Team based in Cannock.
The team in Cannock is multidisciplinary and provides high quality care for service users that experience mental health conditions. The team is part of the wider Integrated Mental Health Team covering Cannock, Rugeley and Great Haywood and links together for CPD events, supervision and partnership working.
We are seeking an experienced Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker who has a keen interest in working with this client group to provide a holistic overview and lead on the care and treatment of the person’s journey through to recovery. The successful candidate will provide nursing leadership to the MDT, support junior colleagues in their development and facilitate student nurses in their training.
Main duties of the job
- Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes specialist assessment, care planning in conjunction with service user and carer and evaluation of individual treatment plans.
- Participate in setting quality standards, including auditing, monitoring, and reviewing practice in line with current clinical guidance and policy.
- Administer medication in compliance with Trust procedures and NMC guidance.
- Assess patients’ individual care needs, develop, implement, and evaluate programmes of care.
- Deliver interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and pathway guidance, including pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
- Complete and contribute, where appropriate, to robust risk assessments and risk management plans, promote positive risk‑taking where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
About the team
The Integrated Mental Health Team is an innovative secondary care community team guided by collective leadership, providing evidence‑based psychological and medical interventions to patients with a range of complex mental health needs. The team supports service users with a wide range of needs from anxiety and depression to severe and enduring mental illness.
The successful candidate can expect:
- Support with settling into the team and developing into the role.
- Regular discussion about your skills and personal career progression, managed through the Trust’s appraisal process.
- A commitment to supporting practice updates and skill development through formal and informal training.
- Regular, high‑quality clinical and managerial supervision.
- Warm, friendly, supportive colleagues.
- Collective leaders committed to the psychological and physical wellbeing of staff within the pathway.
- Continual embrace of lean methodology to improve service quality for patients and staff experience.
- A highly skilled multi‑disciplinary team including nursing colleagues, allied health professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, support workers and peer support workers.
- Staff wellbeing focus with regular events held throughout the year.
The usual hours are Monday to Friday 9am–5pm. The role requires transport availability as it will involve travel over a large geographical area.
Qualifications and Training
- Recorded/registered qualification in RMN, Social Work, Occupational Therapy.
- Active NMC/HCPC Register.
- Psychological interventions qualification (CBT, EMDR, CAT, DBT, Family Therapy).
- Registered practice assessor for students.
Experience
- Extensive post‑registration experience working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties.
- Experience working with people who have difficulty engaging with services and have complex mental health needs.
- Experience assessing, planning, coordinating and managing people with mental health problems in a community setting.
- Experience working in a community setting and making decisions autonomously.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any criminal convictions.
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