Safer Neighbourhood Service – Mental Health Practitioner
Closing date: 12 June 2026
The Safer Neighbourhood Service (SNS) is an established, multi-agency service embedded at the heart of Rotherham’s public protection and vulnerability landscape. The service has evolved to meet increasing complexity across criminal justice, safeguarding, public health and community systems. It has become instrumental in supporting the management of high‑risk, high‑demands individuals within the borough.
We are now seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join this service.
The SNS is co‑located with South Yorkshire Police and works with Adult Social Care, Probation, Public Health, housing services and a wide range of voluntary and third‑sector organisations. The service provides expert mental health advice, assessment, formulation and risk management across multiple forums and pathways.
It is a service that operates where traditional boundaries meet. The SNS supports individuals who are often experiencing severe mental illness, complex trauma, personality difficulties, exploitation, offending behaviour, self‑neglect or chronic vulnerability. Many are high‑frequency callers, subject to safeguarding processes or multi‑agency risk management frameworks.
As the Mental Health Practitioner, you will work alongside the Clinical Lead to provide specialist mental health expertise across a range of multi‑agency contexts. You will bring comprehensive assessment skills, curiosity and confident decision‑making into environments that require both clinical and systemic awareness.
Job responsibilities
- The completion of comprehensive assessments
- Contributing to complex, sometimes high‑risk forensic cases
- Providing triage, consultation and liaison to numerous agencies
- Representing mental health services within multi‑agency forums
- Contributing to suicide prevention strategy, real‑time surveillance panels and post‑vention responses
- Delivering training to partner agencies on mental health, risk, suicide prevention and trauma‑informed approaches
What this post offers
- Influence across health, criminal justice and safeguarding networks
- Exposure to complex and challenging cases within the borough
- Development in advanced risk assessment and multi‑agency leadership
- Opportunities to shape local suicide prevention and vulnerability strategies
- A role embedded within innovation, partnership and service transformation
Person Specification
Educational Qualifications & Vocational Training
- RMN/RNLD current professional registration with NMC or Registered Social Worker with Social Work England
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development inclusive of applicable external training
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post‑graduate diploma, specialist training, experience, short courses or specialist training
- Development inclusive of applicable external training
- Clinical Leadership Qualification
Experience
- Demonstrable post‑registration experience within Adult Mental Health Services
- Experience working with patients with complex needs and high‑risk behaviours
- Experience of working in the community, MDT working, delivering evidence‑based treatments
- Skills in coordinating and planning inter‑agency approaches in mental health care
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Experience of working with statutory and non‑statutory agencies both internally and externally
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
Knowledge
- Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision, largely as a lone worker
- Knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice
- Understanding of user/carer involvement in care planning
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding
- Good knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act
- Psychological therapy skills, e.g., CBT/DBT/ACT
- Knowledge of the roles of external agencies working within the SNS and that the SNS works into
- Experience or knowledge of the criminal justice system and its associated processes
Skills
- Access to transport and the ability to travel between the required geographical area
- Demonstrable interpersonal resilience
- Work in accordance with the Trust Values
- Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families
- Ability to use own initiative when needed and to make decisions independently and with integrity
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- Self‑motivated, resourceful and resilient in challenging situations
- Self‑aware and committed to professional and personal development; able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
- Ability to understand the expectations and competing demands of numerous different external agencies and services
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.
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