The Safer Neighbourhood Service (SNS) is an established, multi-agency service embedded at the heart of Rotherham’s public protection and vulnerability landscape. The service has evolved to meet increasing complexity across criminal justice, safeguarding, public health and community systems. It has become instrumental in supporting the management of high-risk, high-demand individuals within the borough.
We are now seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join this service.
The SNS is co-located with South Yorkshire Police and works with Adult Social Care, Probation, Public Health, housing services and a wide range of voluntary and third-sector organisations. The service provides expert mental health advice, assessment, formulation and risk management across multiple forums and pathways.
It is a service that operates where traditional boundaries meet. The SNS supports individuals who are often experiencing severe mental illness, complex trauma, personality difficulties, exploitation, offending behaviour, self-neglect or chronic vulnerability. Many are high-frequency callers, subject to safeguarding processes or multi-agency risk management frameworks.
As the Mental Health Practitioner, you will work alongside the Clinical Lead to provide specialist mental health expertise across a range of multi-agency contexts. You will bring comprehensive assessment skills, curiosity and confident decision-making into environments that require both clinical and systemic awareness.
The role includes:
The completion of comprehensive assessments
Contributing to complex, sometimes high-risk forensic cases
Providing triage, consultation and liaison to numerous agencies
Representing mental health services within multi-agency forums
Contributing to suicide prevention strategy, real-time surveillance panels and postvention responses
Delivering training to partner agencies on mental health, risk, suicide prevention and trauma-informed approaches
The role requires sound professional judgement and the ability to translate clinical information into clear plans for other agencies.
You will bring:
Experience of working with complex presentations
Confidence in risk assessment and dynamic risk management
Knowledge of the MHA, MCA and Safeguarding frameworks
Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter-agency collaboration
Excellent communication and report-writing skills
The ability to work independently within demanding contexts
Emotional resilience and reflective capacity
This post offers offers:
Influence across health, criminal justice and safeguarding networks
Exposure to complex and challenging cases within the borough
Development in advanced risk assessment and multi-agency leadership
Opportunities to shape local suicide prevention and vulnerability strategies
A role embedded within innovation, partnership and service transformation.
Experience of working alongside criminal justice agencies would be advantageous, though not essential.
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://workwithrdash.co.uk/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
