Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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The closing date is 28 January 2026

At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) 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 Hightown Barracks, Wrexham.

The vacant post is part time working 32 hours per week.

Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

• 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
• Professional Registration Fees Re-imbursed

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will work within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) setting to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) and network as required.

The post holder will have extensive experience of delivering psychological therapy in a stepped care service.

The post holder will require robust clinical assessment skills and an understanding of an occupational role and needs of individuals presenting to the service.

Work with service personnel with complex common mental health disorder related problems for which cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is demonstrated to be clinically effective, individually, in groups and via face to face and digital platforms while undertaking a programme of training for this role.

To directly provide highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions to individuals and groups.

Clinically supervise less experienced therapists.

To 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.

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 youve 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.

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

• To provide a timely and high-quality mental health service to all patients referred to the DCMH for assessment and treatment of mental health presentations.
• A wide variety of clinical work depending on qualifications working within your abilities but also stretching your capability.
• To act as a clinical resource and liaise with Medical Officers/General Practitioners (MO/GP) and offer advice to the chain of command on mental health matters, the administrative management of personnel with mental health difficulties and mental health promotion.
• To work flexibly within 32 hours per week, with core service hours of 8am-5pm.
• The team will be operational across a network so you will need to be flexible in where and how care is delivered.
• To provide training in assessment and formulation and other CBT based practices to the team.
• Deputise for the team manager and hold delegated professional management of the team as required.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.

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pplication stage you will be assessed against your CV:

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