Mental Health Nurse/Mental Health Social Worker

NHS; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Basingstoke is seeking a dedicated Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker to join their Community Mental Health Team. The successful candidate will manage a caseload, provide clinical care, and mentor new staff. The role requires strong communication and assessment skills and offers a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 per year. Flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualifying experience in mental health nursing or social work.
• Proven experience in managing complex cases and crisis intervention.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users covering shared care.
• Conduct assessments and provide front-line clinical care.
• Supervise and mentor new and unregistered staff.

Skills

Highly developed communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Emotional coping skills training

Good facilitation skills

Strong assessment skills

Education

Driving license

Level 2 computer IT qualification

Tools

RIO knowledge

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Nurse/Mental Health Social Worker

The closing date is 21 September 2025

What if you could work with an amazing team? Would you find it rewarding to work with and support people with severe and enduring mental illness work towards their recovery? It takes a special sort of person to work in a Community Mental Health Team. Is that person you?

We are currently looking for highly motivated, experienced and innovative Band 6 Psychiatric Nurses or Mental Health Social Workers to join our CMHT. We are a lively, dynamic, nurturing, supportive and busy multi-disciplinary team who provides care coordination and recovery-focused care for individuals with complex and challenging mental health needs. You will be responsible for managing a caseload of service users, covering shared care and carrying out assessments. You will be involved in training, mentoring and supervising new and unregistered staff as well as providing excellent front-line clinical care.

Our CMHT provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families. You will need to be able to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, administration and IT skills. You will also need excellent assessment and communication skills. There will be lots of shadowing/training opportunities to introduce you to the care co-ordination role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care.

Main duties of the job

We believe our staff are our most valuable resource and we are passionate about creating a culture of compassion, collaboration and continuous improvement. We have our own unique, internal Academy of Excellence supporting registered staff to gain support throughout their careers to realise their aspirations, as well as links to local universities to support further education and development.

We support staff in clinical practice in many ways, and this includes having a team of Practice Educators to support and guide staff as they work alongside them. We are also increasingly looking to enable staff to move seamlessly into roles that best meet their needs at that time, both within the service and across the division, as well as within the local healthcare system. We are one of only a few NHS Trusts in the country to offer fully funded leadership and management qualifications to staff.

You are also welcome to visit our team in advance of your interview and talk to our clinicians about the wonderful culture and ethos in our team and what it's like to work here

Car driver and use of car within work hours is essential.

Further details are set out in the Job Description. For additional information, please contact Caroline Fonseca on [e-mail]

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Computer skills and be able to type, significant post qualifying experience, mentorship course, clinical supervision training.
• Level 2 computer IT qualification or european computer, driving license, completion of preceptorship.

Experience

• Highly developed communication skills, emotional coping skills training, able to identify when patients mental health is deteriorating, ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding, good facilitation skills, evidence of effective interpersonal skills, active listening and building empathy.
• Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks, ability to motivate service users, ability to work autonomously, experience of mentorship in practice, working knowledge of the application of the appropriate professional code of conduct, management of aggression and manual handling training.
• Knowledge of risk assessments, outcome measures and counselling skills.

Additional Criteria

• Providing compassionate, safe care, listening to each other, doing the right thing, appreciating each other, delivering quality, communicating clearly, supporting each other, working as a team, building relationships, making things happen, acting with honesty and integrity, respecting each other, taking responsibility, getting the best from our resources, doing what we say we will do.
• RIO knowledge.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearThe pro rata salary - 22.5hrs - £23,209.20 - £27,948.00.