Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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.

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.

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

Qualifications

Essential: - Qualified as a registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.