Job Description

Are you a passionate Band 5 clinician ready to take the next step in your career?
Do you thrive in fast-paced, supportive environments where innovation and compassion go hand in hand? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for a skilled and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our dynamic team within the Sunderland and South Tyneside Access CBU.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a service that values clinical excellence, staff wellbeing, and continuous development.
What We're Looking For:

• Registered professional (RMN, Social Worker, OT) with current registration.
• Experience of children's and young person's and/or crisis services
• Strong assessment, risk management, and care planning skills.
• A collaborative approach and commitment to trauma-informed care.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Delivering high-quality mental health assessments and interventions.
• Supporting service users in crisis and facilitating safe, person-centred care.
• Contributing to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Working closely with colleagues across primary and secondary care pathways.

What We Offer:

• A supportive and inclusive team culture with regular supervision and reflective practice.
• Access to bespoke training and CPD opportunities to help you grow.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.

Opportunities to contribute to service innovation and leadership development
Main duties of the job

• Crisis Intervention: Delivering short-term, intensive support to help stabilise individuals in crisis and reduce immediate risk.
• Risk Management: Evaluating and managing risks related to self-harm, suicide, or harm to others, and implementing safety plans.
• Multi-disciplinary Working: Collaborating with psychiatrists, social workers, and other professionals to coordinate care.
• Care Planning: Developing and reviewing care plans tailored to the individual's needs, including referrals to appropriate services.
• Documentation: Maintaining accurate and timely clinical records in line with legal and professional standards.

The successful candidate will be expected to exercise clinical judgment and contribute actively to the team.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Details
Date posted
02 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
31,049 to 37,796 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
263-CCG25-316-LB
Job locations
Hopewood Park Hospital
Sunderland
SR2 0NB
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 2nd September 2025
Closing date : 16th September 2025
We welcome your application. Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 2nd September 2025
Closing date : 16th September 2025
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential

• First Level Registration RMN/RNMH/RNLD Qualification
• Experience of working with service users and carers in successful delivery of treatment plans
• Complete preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses
• Multi-disciplinary team work.
• Proven ability to develop therapeutic partnership with service users and carers.
• Proven ability to be able to communicate interventions to service users.

Desirable

• Further relevant post qualifying training

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of relevant contemporary professional theories of mental health care and evidence based interventions.
• Understanding of the statutory issues which impact on service users.

Desirable

• Previous experience in a community setting.
• Experience of involving service users/ carers in evaluation/planning and monitoring of services

Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Time Management skills and ability to prioritise work load
• Comprehensive continuous assessment of skills
• Risk Assessment skills.
• Risk Management and Safety Planning skills
• Adaptability, fleibility, good communication skills and a commitment to multi-agency team work

Additional Role Requirements
Essential

• Must be able to meet the mobility requirements of the post.

Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential

• First Level Registration RMN/RNMH/RNLD Qualification
• Experience of working with service users and carers in successful delivery of treatment plans
• Complete preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses
• Multi-disciplinary team work.
• Proven ability to develop therapeutic partnership with service users and carers.
• Proven ability to be able to communicate interventions to service users.

Desirable

• Further relevant post qualifying training

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of relevant contemporary professional theories of mental health care and evidence based interventions.
• Understanding of the statutory issues which impact on service users.

Desirable

• Previous experience in a community setting.
• Experience of involving service users/ carers in evaluation/planning and monitoring of services

Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Time Management skills and ability to prioritise work load
• Comprehensive continuous assessment of skills
• Risk Assessment skills.
• Risk Management and Safety Planning skills
• Adaptability, fleibility, good communication skills and a commitment to multi-agency team work

Additional Role Requirements
Essential

• Must be able to meet the mobility requirements of the post.

Skills Required