Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner. The role involves conducting mental health assessments, care planning, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated care. Candidates should be registered mental health professionals with strong assessment and communication skills. The position offers a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 based on full-time hours, fostering a work environment focused on wellbeing and impactful patient care.

Qualifications

• Qualified as a registered mental health nurse, social worker or occupational therapist.
• Mentorship course and evidence of continuing professional development.
• Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality mental health assessments and interventions.
• Work with GPs and Community Mental Health Teams for coordinated care.
• Triage referrals and manage risk for service users.

Skills

Strong assessment skills

Communication skills

Clinical judgement

Education

Registered mental health nurse, social worker, or occupational therapist

Mentorship course/evidence of CPD

Clinical supervision training

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 15 February 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and compassionate Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to make a real difference to peoples lives within a primary care setting. Working at the heart of integrated services, you will provide high-quality mental health assessments, risk formulation, care planning and brief therapeutic interventions for adults experiencing a range of mental health needs.

You will work autonomously while being fully supported by regular supervision, reflective practice and a strong multidisciplinary team. The role involves close collaboration with GPs, Community Mental Health Teams, social prescribers and partner agencies, ensuring people receive timely, coordinated and person-centred care. You will play a key role in triaging referrals, managing risk, supporting recovery and promoting choice, independence and empowerment for service users and carers.

We are looking for a skilled clinician with strong assessment and communication skills, sound clinical judgement and a genuine commitment to recovery-focused practice. You will be confident prioritising a varied caseload, working independently, and contributing positively to service development and team working.

This role offers the chance to work in a forward-thinking NHS service where your expertise is valued, your wellbeing matters, and your work makes a meaningful impact every day.

Main duties of the job

• To participate in CMHT MDT meetings and MDT within a Primary care setting
• Communicating service user needs and be able to assist in prioritising the allocation of workload
• To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service users needs
• To work in collaboration with patients as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.
• To assess, coordinate and broker the needs of services users in primary care and other relevant agencies in partnership with the service user
• To accurately record all contacts with service users in the appropriate primary care system in line with the relevant record keeping policy
• To ensure effective communication with service users, relatives and carers, visitors, staff, and others

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.

Qualifications

• Qualified as a registered mental health nurse, social worker or occupational therapist
• Mentorship course/evidence of CPD
• Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post
• 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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearBased on full time hours