Are you a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner looking for an exciting and rewarding role? Are you seeking job satisfaction, numerous benefits and training opportunities? Would you like your career to take a different direction into a friendly and professional organisation?

If the answer is yes then we have various vacancies across the UK within Defence Primary Healthcare for Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners.

Our successful applicants will deliver the following:

1. The Mental Health Practitioner will work autonomously within a small multidisciplinary team to provide a timely and high quality specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMH) Area Of Responsibility (AOR) and the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) overseas service in Cyprus as required. This will involve taking part in an on call rota to provide liaison and some assessment services.

2. You will provide flexible and individualised care packages to meet the mental health needs of entitled patients with mental health problems. The post holder will require robust clinical risk assessment and treatment skills, along with an understanding of the occupational role and needs of individuals presenting to the service.

3. The Mental Health Practitioner will be proactive in the development of service and organisational initiatives, and will offer educational resources to Medical Officers/General Practitioners (MO/GP), along with advice to Unit Commanders on mental health matters, the administrative management of personnel with mental health difficulties and mental health promotion. When required they will assist in the arrangements and assessment for repatriation of patients to the UK.

The full Job Description and associated Post Skills Profile enclosed are assessed against the NHS Agenda for Change Broad Post Outline for MoD clinical posts at Band 6.

Please be aware that if you are found successful you will be asked to provide evidence of your immunity to hepatitis B.

If you are interested in applying for any of these roles, please see the attached terms of reference and job description for details.

Please note that the vacancies cover full time and part time.

This is a national campaign, where there may not be immediate vacancies in all areas; however a reserve list will be kept for up to 12 months.

For more information and to apply please visit www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk quoting 1565287 to search for the vacancy.