Community Mental Health Practitioner - New Forest CMHT (West)

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; New Milton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in England is seeking a dedicated professional for a role in Adult Mental Health within the New Forest CMHT team. Responsibilities include co-coordinating care for service users with severe mental illness, formulating care plans, and providing therapeutic interventions. Candidates should have experience in mental health, be able to assess and manage risks, and work collaboratively with service users. This is an exciting opportunity for those looking to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care, ideally with severe and enduring conditions.
• Knowledge of NHS policies and mental health practices.
• Ability to formulate individual care plans.

Responsibilities

• Co-coordinate care for service users with complex mental health problems.
• Formulate and assess individual care plans.
• Provide therapeutic interventions based on care plans.
• Manage risk and develop plans accordingly.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Care coordination

Therapeutic interventions

Risk management

Education

Relevant mental health qualifications

Job description

Are you ready to take on an exciting role working in Adult Mental Health on a full or part-time basis with the New Forest CMHT (West) team based at Waterford House in New Milton. If you’re innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high-quality holistic care, then we would love to hear from you. You will have a broad depth of mental health experience working with individuals who have severe and enduring mental illness.

You will be responsible for care‑coordinating caseload of service users with complex long‑term mental health problems who find it difficult to engage with services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex mental health problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths‑based and recovery‑focused way to support service users to meet their mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

• Co‑coordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• Formulate care plans in line with identified need.
• Provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment.
• Assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user’s needs.
• Work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user, and use tools which promote user empowerment (e.g. WRAP).
• Ensure that service users receive the range of interventions they need in line with their care plan and signpost where necessary. This will include physical health monitoring.
• Be proactive in ensuring that care plans are matched to need and that service users can ‘flow’ through pathways of care.
• Work in line with all relevant policies and procedures, including care planning, risk and safeguarding, and alert the Team Leader or Manager to any concerns in a timely manner.

We will consider applicants from Band 5 practitioners who are looking for their first community post.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust brings together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community and physical health services. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes and deliver compassionate and high‑quality care across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.