Mental Health Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is looking for a Mental Health Practitioner in Newport to deliver treatment to patients with complex mental health needs. Responsibilities include supervising support staff, coordinating care plans, and ensuring high-quality care delivery. Applicants must hold relevant healthcare registration and have experience in mental health support. The position offers a salary ranging from £31,409 to £37,796 based on full-time hours, highlighting the organization's commitment to flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Live Social Work England Registration, or relevant healthcare registration.
• Ongoing professional development and training.
• Experience in assessing and supporting people with mental illness.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care for patients with complex mental health problems.
• Coordinate care through the Care Programme Approach.
• Supervise Recovery Support Workers and evaluate interventions.

Skills

Social Work skills

Risk assessment

Management skills

Communication skills

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Live social work registration

Post-registration training in psychological interventions

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 21 December 2025

We are recruiting for a Mental Health Practitioner to work within the Recovery Service providing Mental Health services to a caseload of people with complex mental health problems here on the Isle of Wight.

You will provide high quality care and treatment in conjunction with other professionals and work in partnership with other agencies to provide seamless, flexible services which meet service user and carer need.

Main duties of the job

To practice with a high degree of autonomy within the structure and the wider values of multidisciplinary working.

To focus on the direct needs of patients, working across boundaries of care, organisations and role and to be responsible for the co-ordination of care through the Care Programme Approach.

To have responsibility for an allocated caseload of people with lived experience, to promote their recovery and maintain them in the community environment, helping them to build their own support network.

To assess and support patients to identify their own needs.

To supervise Recovery Support Workers and Peer Support Workers to help devise, implement and evaluate interventions and plans.

To always have the needs of the individual at the fore and use recovery orientated values and skills to underpin day to day work.

To assist the Senior Mental Health Practitioners and supervise Recovery Support Workers in providing agreed standards of care to everyone who uses the Recovery Service.

To ensure that each patient has an individual holistic care plan which identifies any Social Care needs alongside support and guidance to encourage them to access relevant agencies.

To provide telephone support to patients, their families and Carer seeking guidance from Senior Mental Health Practitioners as appropriate.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

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

• Social Worker with live Social Work England Registration, Occupational Therapist with live HCPC registration or RN[MH] with live NMC registration
• Evidence of on-going development and post registration/qualifying training.
• Training in Risk assessment and management skills.
• Ability to build on the knowledge, skills and priorities of people working in a range of disciplines
• Experience in the assessment, and support of people living with mental illness.
• Post registration training in evidence based psychological interventions.
• Evidence of undertaking audit work
• Innovative, creative and a willingness to try new ideas
• Qualification or relevant professional equivalent

Experience

• Access to own vehicular transport, for use on work business
• Able to present ideas with clarity and in a persuasive and influential style
• Able to manage and prioritise effectively own time and clinical caseload.
• Effective time management and prioritisation skills
• Able to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and patients.
• Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate support plans
• Ability to demonstrate a creative and flexible approach in order to deliver a high standard of care and support.
• Ability to set, monitor and evaluate standards for quality within the service
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Ability to communicate effectively across multi-disciplinary groups

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

£31,409 to £37,796 a year based on full time hours