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Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 18 November 2026

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Job summary

Important Information for Applicants: This vacancy is for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SaBP).

This role is offered through Flexi-Bank, a collaborative temporary staffing service delivered in partnership between Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust. Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust acts as the host provider and manages the recruitment, onboarding and administrative processes on behalf of Surrey and Borders.

Please note that although Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust branding may appear on this advert and within the recruitment system, successful applicants for this vacancy will undertake bank shifts for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Work Location: NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health, Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 1AY

Why join Flexi-Bank?

Work flexibly - choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and availability

Access more opportunities - pick up shifts across mental health and community

Get paid fairly and on time - competitive rates and fast access to earnings through Stream

Stay supported - benefit from training, development and guidance from our dedicated Temporary Staffing Team

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose

Surrey and borders is looking for someone to make better live by ensuring an accessible, non- stigmatizing, localized service that contributes to the continuing care and rehabilitation of people within the locality with established mental health illness.

Job Overview:

- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of people who use our services.

- To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students

- To lead the care for a specified group of services users

- To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff

This role is suitable for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.

Please refer to the Job description!

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organization that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Details

Date posted

05 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£25.83 an hour Per Hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

384-SVM-MHP-Band 6

Job locations

NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health,

Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire,

GU11 1AY

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

To lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services.

To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.

To deliver individual and group therapy utilizing CBT skills.

To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health.

To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.

To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.

To ensure provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.

To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.

To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately

Communication

To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.

To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.

To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist

To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to People who use our services.

To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background

Please refer to JD for more details!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

To lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services.

To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.

To deliver individual and group therapy utilizing CBT skills.

To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health.

To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.

To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.

To ensure provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.

To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.

To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately

Communication

To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.

To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.

To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist

To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to People who use our services.

To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background

Please refer to JD for more details!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration - RMN
• Successful completion of mentorship course

Experience

Essential

• Further training or experience to post graduate diploma level or 5 years equivalent experience
• Aware of personal and professional boundaries
• Clinical supervision training

Knowledge

Desirable

• System 1

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration - RMN
• Successful completion of mentorship course

Experience

Essential

• Further training or experience to post graduate diploma level or 5 years equivalent experience
• Aware of personal and professional boundaries
• Clinical supervision training

Knowledge

Desirable

• System 1

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health,

Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire,

GU11 1AY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health,

Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire,

GU11 1AY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Manager

Siobhan Fleming

[email protected]

Details

Date posted

05 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£25.83 an hour Per Hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

384-SVM-MHP-Band 6

Job locations

NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health,

Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire,

GU11 1AY

United Kingdom

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