Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner N-STEP

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Kettering; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job description

Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner N-STEP

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Early Intervention in Psychosis Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Secondment: 6 months (or fixed term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 270-TG721-MH

Site Carey Block St Mary's Hospital Town Kettering Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/02/2026 08:00

Job overview

Band 6 Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner Northamptonshire Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (N-STEP) Community Mental Health Team (Monday to Friday).

An exciting 6 month secondment opportunity has arisen for a full time self-motivating and resourceful community mental health practitioner to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. We are looking for a registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist , or Social Worker.

Based at Carey Block St Mary's Hospital.

You will be working with individuals and their families from aged 14 -65 years, CAMHS experience will be welcomed.

The post holder will be working in the county localities, you will be at the forefront of shaping the team’s service model, working alongside your MDT colleagues to ensure that services provided meet the National access and waiting standards for Early intervention services. This will include cognitive behavioural therapy and Brief family interventions. Also ensuring the services are responsive, flexible, and innovative. You will be involved in evidence-based assessments when requested, and in developing and delivering recovery focused interventions and community groups.

You will maintain Care-Coordinator / keyworker responsibilities for a case-load of service users with first episode Psychosis, and participate in day to day team duties.

Main duties of the job

Managing a small caseload of service users with first episode psychosis working as an integral part of a multi disciplinary team with a whole team approach.

The successful candidate must have excellent communication and assessment skills, be confident in their ability to support service users and their families with Psychosis, and most importantly be a whole team player.

If you feel you have the drive, interest and professionalism that we require to deliver a quality service, we will welcome your application.

Closing Date: This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Knowledge

• • Experience of working with individuals with severe mental illness.
• 1st level registered nurse , Social woker (RMN or equivalent) with community experience, or relevant experience of working with this specialist client group.
• • Experience of delivering mental health care in non-traditional settings and of practicing involvement in early detection and assertive outreach work.

Knowledge

• Registered practitioner
• • A sound working knowledge and expertise of psychosocial interventions specific to early Intervention achieved through recognised training, in depth

Experience

• • Application of clinical and multidisciplinary approaches.
• • CAMH s Knowledge and experience

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.