Band 7

Are you an empathetic Mental Health Practitioner looking for an exciting new role?

We are now recruiting for a Band 7 Mental Health Practitioner to join a well-established NHS trust based in York on a locum contract. The post on offer will be an immediate start for 2 months with the possibility of an extension.

The successful Practitioner will manage a defined caseload using specialist knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care programs. The post holder will provide a range of clinical interventions to students, including those with high levels of clinical risk and crisis. Your role will include a mix of duties for crisis and short notice appointments, being on a rota of staff for a drop-in wellbeing service and carrying a caseload of students for which you are responsible for coordinating. You will be responsible for carrying out mental health assessments and offering a range of brief therapeutic interventions for students, both preventative and responsive.

Skills and experience needed:

Managing a caseload

Offer clinical treatment work and consultation

Experience with a wide range of mental health presentations

Can work well independently and as part of the team

What next?

If you are an enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner with excellent rapport building skills and would like to learn more, please apply today, or contact a member of our team for more information.

Why Pulse?

First class support and advice from our team of dedicated and experienced consultants

£300 recommend a friend bonus scheme*

ipoint – Electronic timesheet processing app

Regional compliance team of trained phlebotomists’

Variety of work opportunities in both NHS and private sectors

Assistance with travel and accommodation

Access to high-quality voluntary training

Daily payroll

Different payment methods – PAYE/PSC/LTD and umbrella

*Terms and conditions apply

Not for you but know the perfect Mental Health Practitioner?

If you are registered with Pulse and recommend a friend to us, you can earn a £300 bonus per recommendation, once they have worked over 200 hours*.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.