An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated team at Colburn Medical Practice.
This post would suit a Band 5 looking to develop community assessment and intervention skills.
The WestIntegrated Community Mental Health Team provides mental health services and delivers care to adults across Richmondshire and the Dales areas through two team bases. Our 2nd office is based in Leyburn.
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, Consultant Psychiatrists and medics, Team admin and support workers. With access to and support from specialist services available in the trust, and excellent working relationships with local partner organisations.
The team and locality is 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, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.
As a key worker you will be expected to hold a case load of patients, to 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. 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 registration with the relevant governing body. Nursing candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the time of applying.
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.
Princess Road Clinic is a short walk from the main town where there are many local shops and cafes. Ryedale is known for its unique blend of rich history, beauty and charming tranquil lifestyle mixed with bustling market towns and small villages.
18 June 2026
Agenda for change
Band 6
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Secondment
Full-time
346-NYA-100-26-A
Colburn Medical Practice
Orchard House. Easton Way
Colburn
DL94GA
United Kingdom
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
- 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.
- 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)
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Leadership or management qualification
- 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
- Significant experience working with mental ill health in a community environment.
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
- The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)
- 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
- Competency in venepuncture
- 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.
- 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)
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Leadership or management qualification
- 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
- Significant experience working with mental ill health in a community environment.
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
- The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)
- 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
- Competency in venepuncture
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Colburn Medical Practice
Orchard House. Easton Way
Colburn
DL94GA
United Kingdom
https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Colburn Medical Practice
Orchard House. Easton Way
Colburn
DL94GA
United Kingdom
https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
