Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the Southampton Central Community Mental Health Team. You will manage a complex caseload of adults with severe mental health conditions, lead care coordination and deliver recovery‑focused interventions.

Based in central Southampton, the post involves comprehensive assessments, care planning, and collaboration with service users, families and local

Qualifications

• Qualified as a Senior Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Support service users with managing symptoms and accessing housing, benefits, education and employment.
• Assess mental state and implement risk management plans.
• Formulate and review care plans in line with needs and policies.
• Provide therapeutic psychosocial interventions and work on physical health improvements.
• Participate in weekly team meetings and help prioritise workload.
• Prepare professional reports and attend multidisciplinary meetings and case conferences.
• Establish partnerships with service users, families and other community services.
• Provide mentorship, support and supervision to students, trainees and junior staff.

Job description

Would you value being part of an experienced team that is known for being welcoming, inclusive and flexible, with an approachable leadership team that is committed to putting staff wellbeing and patient safety at the forefront of our service?

As a team, we are passionate about providing a service of the highest quality that is safe, effective, compassionate and responsive. We are a multi-disciplinary, integrated team including Peer Workers, Employment Specialists and a Carers Worker. We also work closely with our colleagues based in the Primary Care Networks.

We have an opportunity for a qualified Senior Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or OT to join our team in Southampton Central Community Mental Health Team. You will be managing a complex caseload of adults with severe and enduring mental health conditions, acting as Lead Professional to coordinate care, deliver recovery-focused interventions, undertake comprehensive assessments, and support service users to achieve their goals.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in central Southampton: a diverse, multi-cultural area which also has two large universities on its patch.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a care coordination role as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, engaging, working with a caseload of service users with severe or enduring mental health problems.
• Help service users manage their symptoms, deliver evidence based interventions and give advice, support and signposting on practical issues such as housing, benefits, education, employment, medication and social activities in the local area.
• Assess and monitor service user's mental state, provide comprehensive risk assessment and implement management plans, undertake crisis management and contingency planning.
• Formulate care plans in line with identified need and review in line with the Trust's care planning policy.
• Provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment, utilising psycho-social interventions and work on improving physical health.
• Participate in weekly team meetings, communicating service user needs and be able to assist in prioritising the allocation of workload.
• Prepare professional reports and attend multidisciplinary meetings, reviews and case conferences.
• Establish supportive partnerships with both service users and the family / social networks as well as with other community services and teams.
• Provide mentorship, support and supervision to students, trainees and junior staff.
• 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.

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