Mental Health Practitioner

Wight Healthcare; Southampton; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Mental Health Practitioner to join a friendly multi-disciplinary team in the NHS. The role involves managing a caseload, coordinating care, and delivering assessments and interventions for service users, carers, and families.

Newly qualified professionals are encouraged to apply; flexible working patterns are available, with 9am–5pm hours and occasional weekends or bank holidays.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with UK registration.
• Experience in community mental health care.
• Ability to work with multi-agency partners.
• Flexibility to work varied patterns.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload and undertake the role of Care Coordinator.
• Provide assessments and specific interventions to meet service user needs.
• Develop professional relationships with multi-agencies and families.
• Be a flexible practitioner capable of meeting evolving service needs.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Social Worker

Mental Health Practitioner

OT

Computer skills

Education

Post-qualifying experience

Mentorship course

Clinical supervision training

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly multi-disciplinary team.

We are able to offer an individualised program of support and professional development to work through with the encouragement from an existing motivated, positive and experienced team. Newly qualified professionals are encouraged to apply.

You will hold a caseload and undertake the role of Care Coordinator for those with varied complex mental health and social care needs. You will provide assessment and specific interventions to meet the needs of service users, their carers, and families. It is expected that you will be a flexible practitioner who enjoys new challenges in meeting the developing needs of the service and our service users.

The post holder will be expected to work proactively in forging professional working relationships with multi-agencies.

Car driver is preferrable but not essential. You will be working 9am -5pm Monday to Friday and occasional weekend or bank holidays. We are flexible regarding working patterns and working hours.

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

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

• Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Mental Health Practitioner or O.T.
• Computer skills
• Significant post qualifying experience Mentorship course
• Clinical supervision training

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

02382313300

Band

Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time, Full-Time

Reference number

348-SSW-12501