# Duty and Risk Mental Health Practitioner

**Company**: Vita Health Group
**Location**: Home Based / Remote; Newcastle; Birmingham; Bristol; Loughborough; Liverpool; Swansea; Nottingham; Colchester, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an excellent opportunity for experienced Duty, Risk and Mental Health Practitioners to join us in a new role in an established Talking Therapies service.

Working as part of a regional team, you will play a key role in supporting several Talking Therapies services, providing expert clinical risk and safeguarding guidance to practitioners, liaising with clients and stakeholders, and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care.

**Main duties of the job**

- Work within the regional Duty Team supporting several Talking Therapies services.

- Provide clinical advice and support regarding risk and safeguarding to CBT Therapists, Counsellors, DIT and IPT Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), and administrative staff.

- Ensure robust risk management and safeguarding processes are maintained across services.

- Undertake significant client contact via telephone, often supporting individuals who may be distressed.

- Screen referrals and assess service suitability, ensuring clients receive timely access to appropriate care.

- Facilitate referrals into secondary mental health services where required.

- Liaise with GPs, Secondary Care services, and other external agencies.

- Support interface discussions between Talking Therapies Services and Secondary Care Mental Health Services.

**Experience Required:**

- Working within NHS mental health services supporting individuals with a range of mental health conditions.

- Assessing and managing multiple and complex presentations of clinical risk.

- Working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

- Assessing and managing a wide range of safeguarding concerns.

- Supporting individuals experiencing acute mental distress.

- Providing risk and safeguarding advice, consultation, and/or supervision to other healthcare professionals.

- Communicating confidently with clients, healthcare professionals, and external agencies.

- Working across primary and secondary mental health care pathways (desirable).

**Qualifications & Registration Required:**

- Hold current registration with a recognised professional healthcare regulatory body.

- Maintain ongoing professional development and training.

- Have safeguarding training equivalent to Level 3.

- Demonstrate a strong understanding of risk management, safeguarding processes, and mental health service pathways.

**Benefits:**

- Staff development is very important to Vita Health Group and you will have an annual study leave allowance, for your own development as a practitioner.

- The role will be remote but we encourage team building days on site at Vita Health Group bases in the region.

- You will need to have private working space to take confidential calls.

**About Us**

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything they do.

## Skills

### Required
- risk assessment
- safeguarding
- mental health care
- multidisciplinary teams
- clinical risk management

### Nice to have
- working across primary and secondary mental health care pathways

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