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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Proactive Care Mental Health Practitioner to join our Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) on a 6-month secondment.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape and deliver an innovative neighbourhood-based model of care, bringing specialist mental health expertise directly into the homes of people who are unable to access traditional clinic-based services.

Working as a core member of the Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team, you will provide high-quality mental health assessment, intervention, risk management and care coordination for adults living with frailty, multimorbidity, cognitive impairment and complex psychosocial needs.

Main duties of the job

This senior Band 7 role is designed to bridge the gap between primary care, community services and specialist mental health pathways.

The successful post holder will:

  • Deliver comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health assessments within patients' homes, care homes and community settings.
  • Support individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, complex adjustment difficulties, dementia-related distress, cognitive impairment and other mental health challenges associated with frailty.
  • Provide evidence-based interventions, crisis prevention strategies and relapse prevention planning.
  • Work collaboratively with GPs, community nursing teams, social care professionals, pharmacists, voluntary sector organisations and specialist mental health services.
  • Facilitate access to Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Memory Services, Liaison Psychiatry, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams, and Older Adult Mental Health Services.
  • Provide consultation, education and clinical leadership to the wider multidisciplinary team.
  • Contribute to service development and the continued evolution of neighbourhood-based mental health care.

Details

  • Date posted: 02 November 2026
  • Closing date: 05 November 2026
  • Pay scheme: Agenda for change
  • Band: Band 7
  • Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
  • Contract: Secondment
  • Working pattern: Part-time
  • Reference number: 294-MHCA-8307446-EB-B
  • Job locations: Cheam Resource Centre, 671 London Rd, Sutton, SM3 9DL, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical assessment and formulation

  • Undertake, or support others in undertaking, comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health assessments in patients homes and other community settings.
  • Assess mood, anxiety, psychosis, cognitive change, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), adjustment, trauma, substance use, sleep, self-neglect, carer stress and the impact of physical illness and frailty.

Risk, safeguarding and statutory practice

  • Assess and formulate risk relating to suicide, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, exploitation, violence, domestic abuse, falls, medication, carer breakdown and deterioration.
  • Develop collaborative safety and crisis plans with the patient, family, carers and relevant professionals.
  • Initiate and contribute to safeguarding processes in accordance with legislation and local policy.

Care planning

  • Support PAC care planning (UCP) for patients with the most complex mental health problems associated with frailty e.g. BPSD or psychosis in dementia, or patients on the SMI register with chronic psychosis or severe depression.
  • Advice on the use of evidence-based brief interventions including psychoeducation, behavioural activation, anxiety management, sleep support, problem solving, relapse prevention, carer support and psychologically informed approaches.

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Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential
  • Current UK registration as an RMN, with no restriction incompatible with the role. Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
Desirable
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification; advanced clinical practice or postgraduate qualification in mental health, older adults, frailty, dementia or psychological practice.

Experience

Essential
  • Substantial post-registration mental health experience, including autonomous assessment, formulation, risk management and care planning. Experience of community or home-based practice and multidisciplinary working.
  • Experience of community or home-based practice and multidisciplinary working.
Desirable
  • Adult & Older adult mental health, primary care mental health, crisis/home treatment, liaison psychiatry, memory service, care home liaison or integrated care experience.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential
  • Strong knowledge of common mental disorders, severe mental illness, dementia, delirium, risk, safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and interfaces between physical and mental health.
  • Able to undertake complex home-based assessment, formulate risk, deliver brief evidence-based interventions, plan care and communicate across organisational boundaries.
  • Able to influence without direct authority, provide senior consultation, negotiate access to services, challenge constructively and improve pathways.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, able to work sensitively with patients, carers and professionals and manage disagreement or distress.
  • Able to travel throughout the PCN/neighbourhood and undertake regular home visits. Able to comply with lone-working procedures and flexible service requirements.
Desirable
  • Knowledge of frailty, CGA, polypharmacy, end-of-life care and behavioural symptoms of dementia.
  • Access to a vehicle or other reliable means of community travel, subject to reasonable adjustments.
  • Formal skills in psychological interventions, cognitive assessment, family work or occupational formulation.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

Employer details

  • Employer name: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
  • Address: Cheam Resource Centre, 671 London Rd, Sutton, SM3 9DL, United Kingdom
  • Employer's website: https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/