Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Posted 16 hours 15 minutes ago by NHS
Permanent
Full Time
Temporary Jobs
Leicestershire, Stanford On Soar, United Kingdom, LE125
Job Description
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Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner The closing date is 15 October 2025
At the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.
Are you a Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient-focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high-quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Stanford Hall, Loughborough.
The post is full time working 37.5 hours per week.
Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
The post holder will have extensive experience of delivering manualised psychological therapy in a stepped care service.
About us Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job responsibilities The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will be required to:
Selection Process
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
At application stage you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
At interview you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
The interview will consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please .
The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.
The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation . click apply for full job details
Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner The closing date is 15 October 2025
At the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.
Are you a Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient-focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high-quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Stanford Hall, Loughborough.
The post is full time working 37.5 hours per week.
Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
- Access to learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- Free parking
- Swimming Pool and Gym Access
- 9 Hole Golf Course
- Woodland Walk
- Small Shop and Canteen on Site
The post holder will have extensive experience of delivering manualised psychological therapy in a stepped care service.
About us Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job responsibilities The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will be required to:
- Require robust clinical assessment skills and an understanding of an occupational role and needs of individuals presenting to the service.
- Provide psychological assessment and evidence based interventions both to individuals and via group delivery formats
- Clinically supervise less experienced therapists.
- Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated, and also lead in service evaluation, outcome measurement, audit and research projects to benefit service users.
- Ensure the systematic provision of high-quality mental health patient management. This will be through risk assessment, and mental health assessment and treatment. Facilitating liaison between the Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs), the Psychological Wellbeing Service (PWS), and all teams within DMRC to maintain the patient journey and patient safety.
Selection Process
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
At application stage you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Developing Self and Others
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
- Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
- Please ensure you show how you meet the behaviours listed above.
At interview you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Developing Self & others
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS General NHS G6 PeopleManagement
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
The interview will consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please .
The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.
The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation . click apply for full job details