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      <title>Duty and Risk Mental Health Practitioner</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Main duties of the job</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Work within the regional Duty Team supporting several Talking Therapies services.</li>
<li>Provide clinical advice and support regarding risk and safeguarding to CBT Therapists, Counsellors, DIT and IPT Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), and administrative staff.</li>
<li>Ensure robust risk management and safeguarding processes are maintained across services.</li>
<li>Undertake significant client contact via telephone, often supporting individuals who may be distressed.</li>
<li>Screen referrals and assess service suitability, ensuring clients receive timely access to appropriate care.</li>
<li>Facilitate referrals into secondary mental health services where required.</li>
<li>Liaise with GPs, Secondary Care services, and other external agencies.</li>
<li>Support interface discussions between Talking Therapies Services and Secondary Care Mental Health Services.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Experience Required:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Working within NHS mental health services supporting individuals with a range of mental health conditions.</li>
<li>Assessing and managing multiple and complex presentations of clinical risk.</li>
<li>Working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.</li>
<li>Assessing and managing a wide range of safeguarding concerns.</li>
<li>Supporting individuals experiencing acute mental distress.</li>
<li>Providing risk and safeguarding advice, consultation, and/or supervision to other healthcare professionals.</li>
<li>Communicating confidently with clients, healthcare professionals, and external agencies.</li>
<li>Working across primary and secondary mental health care pathways (desirable).</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Qualifications &amp; Registration Required:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Hold current registration with a recognised professional healthcare regulatory body.</li>
<li>Maintain ongoing professional development and training.</li>
<li>Have safeguarding training equivalent to Level 3.</li>
<li>Demonstrate a strong understanding of risk management, safeguarding processes, and mental health service pathways.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Benefits:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>The role will be remote but we encourage team building days on site at Vita Health Group bases in the region.</li>
<li>You will need to have private working space to take confidential calls.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>About Us</strong></p>
<p>Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything they do.</p>
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      <jobtype>Permanent</jobtype>
      <experiencelevel>senior</experiencelevel>
      <workarrangement>remote</workarrangement>
      <salaryrange>Negotiable</salaryrange>
      <skills>risk assessment, safeguarding, mental health care, multidisciplinary teams, clinical risk management, working across primary and secondary mental health care pathways</skills>
      <category>Healthcare</category>
      <industry>Healthcare</industry>
      <employername>Vita Health Group</employername>
      <employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/vitahealthgroup.co.uk.png</employerlogo>
      <employerdescription>Vita Health Group provides primary care physical and mental health services accessed through the NHS, via employer-funded care, and at their network of private clinics.</employerdescription>
      <employerwebsite>https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/</employerwebsite>
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      <applyto>https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/U0009-26-0087</applyto>
      <location>Home Based / Remote; Newcastle; Birmingham; Bristol; Loughborough; Liverpool; Swansea; Nottingham; Colchester, United Kingdom</location>
      <city>Home Based / Remote; Newcastle; Birmingham; Bristol; Loughborough; Liverpool; Swansea; Nottingham; Colchester</city>
      <state></state>
      <postalcode></postalcode>
      <country>GB</country>
      <postedate>2026-10-26</postedate>
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