Mental health practitioner

Mental Health Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 14 June 2026

Are you ready to take on an exciting role working in Adult Mental Health on a full‑time basis with the New Forest CMHT (East) team based at Anchor House in Totton.

If you're innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high‑quality holistic care, then we would love to hear from you. You will have a broad depth of mental health experience working with individuals who have severe and enduring mental illness.

You will be responsible for care‑coordinating a caseload of service users with complex long‑term mental health problems who find it difficult to engage with services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex mental health problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths‑based and recovery‑focused way to support service users to meet their mental health needs.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS system, which includes: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire and 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

• Coordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• Formulate care plans in line with identified need.
• Provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment.
• Assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
• 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.
• Use tools which promote user empowerment (e.g. WRAP).
• Be proactive in ensuring service users receive the range of interventions they need in line with their care plan and whether the team provides those interventions or if signposting is required, including physical health monitoring.
• Have a proactive approach to the role and needs of carers/families.
• Be innovative and responsive to individual needs, tailoring care accordingly.
• Monitor mental health needs proactively and respond in a timely fashion if needs change.
• Participate fully in caseload supervision and management, ensuring that care plans are matched to need and service users can 'flow' through pathways of care.
• Work in line with all relevant policies and procedures, including care planning, risk and safeguarding.
• Alert the Team Leader or Manager to any concerns in a timely manner.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. If, as a potential candidate, you are concerned that a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of 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.

Person Specification – Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Registered with the NMC
• Mentorship course / evidence of CPD
• Clinical supervision training
• Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a year—based on full‑time hours