Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Community Practitioner
The closing date is 29 November 2026
Job summary
An exciting part time (22.5hours) opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Practitioner to join the East Integrated Community Mental Health Team based in Northallerton.

The East Integrated Community Mental Health Team provides mental health services and delivers care to adults across Hambleton area.

As a member of the team, you will work alongside all members of the multi-disciplinary team which includes Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychology Assistants, Nurse associate, Occupation Therapist, Consultant Psychiatrists and medics, Team admin. With access to and support from specialist services available in the trust, and excellent working relationships with local partner organisations.

The team and locality are an area of high activity, and no two days are the same. If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and are looking to be part of a team striving to make a difference, we will welcome your application for this role.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, due to the part time hours the starting salary for this role would not meet the required salary threshold for this post to be eligible for sponsorship under the Health and Care (Skilled Worker) visa.

Main duties of the job
As a key worker the successful postholder will be expected to hold a case load of patients and be able to deliver care to meet the identified patients needs autonomously and with the support from the MDT.

You will be required to participate in the duty worker rota and support the patient journey from referral to discharge.

In addition to this, as a senior community practitioner, you will be expected to provide support to junior members of the team and to provide an excellent learning environment for students who are placed with the team.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the point of application.

About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care - our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Details
Date posted: 13 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata, per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 346-NYA-189-26-A
Job locations: North Moor House, North Moor Road, Northallerton, DL6 2FG, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the point of application
• Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
• Desirable: Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
• Leadership or management qualification

Experience

• Essential: Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
• Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement. Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Quality improvement activities
• Desirable: Significant experience working with mental ill health in a community environment.
• Leadership or management experience

Knowledge

• Essential: Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
• Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
• Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its o The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS) application in practice.
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
• Research and development methodology.
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
• Desirable: The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)

Skills

• Essential: Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
• Write reports
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
• Use approved breakaway techniques.
• Desirable: Competency in venepuncture

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address: North Moor House, North Moor Road, Northallerton, DL6 2FG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Team Manager Amy Colling, a.colling@nhs.net, 01609751850

Supporting documents
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