Community PractitionerNHS

Job summary

We are seeking a skilled, motivated and compassionate Community Practitioner to join the Newcastle & Gateshead Step Up Hub. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, supporting individuals to remain safely within their community and avoid unnecessary hospital admission. Applicants must be registered nurses with a current professional registration.

This post offers a rewarding mix of community and hospital in-reach responsibilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality, rehabilitation-oriented care.

In this role, you will provide care coordination and nursing support to service users with complex mental health needs across both community and inpatient settings. You'll play a crucial part in ensuring smooth transitions between hospital and community care, attending Mental Health Act tribunals and working closely with multidisciplinary teams.

You will need to be clinicallyexperienced, solution focussed and competent in working with individuals, their families, and carers. You should have a collaborative and enthusiastic approach as well as the passion and commitment to develop and promote recovery-based interventions for adults with mental health related needs.

We want you to be committed to ensuring that only the highest standards of care are delivered to our service users, their families and carers. In return one of our top priorities is looking after our staff so that we have a happy and healthy workforce.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver high-quality, person-centred mental health care in both community services
• Undertake comprehensive risk assessments and care planning
• Attend Mental Health Act tribunals and professionals' meetings as required
• Prepare formal clinical reports for tribunals
• Work collaboratively with inpatient teams to facilitate discharge planning and continuity of care
• Work collaboratively with your service users and relevant individuals/professionals they have involved in their care.
• Provide support and input during mental health crises and implement robust risk management plans
• Mentor and support junior staff, students, and colleagues
• Liaise effectively with GPs, social workers, carers, and other services

Job description

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Advertising date : 2nd October 2026

Closing date : 16th October 2026

We welcome your application.

Please note we cannot accept applications from AHP, Social Workers or Clinical Psychologists.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.