Mental Health Practitioner - A2i

Job summary

The Mental Health Practitioner role within the A2i Team involves providing assessment and short-term intervention (up to six months) for individuals with severe and enduring mental illness. The post holder acts as a lead professional for a defined caseload, ensuring the effective comprehensive assessment, care planning, and risk management tailored to individual needs.

You will deliver recovery-focused, therapeutic interventions in collaboration with service users, promoting choice, independence and personalisation. The role requires working closely with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies, ensuring coordinated and effective care. You will also organise and lead clinical meetings such as reviews, MDT discussions and case conferences.

Strong communication skills are essential, as you will regularly manage complex and sensitive information with service users, carers and professionals, maintaining accurate and timely clinical records. The role also includes mentoring and supporting junior staff and students, contributing to service development, audit and quality improvement activities.

You will be expected to work autonomously while managing competing demands, demonstrating sound clinical judgement and adherence to professional standards. This is a dynamic and rewarding role, offering the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to patient outcomes while contributing to a high-quality, recovery-oriented mental health service.

Main duties of the job

Provide high-quality, recovery-focused care to individuals with severe and enduring mental illness, acting as lead professional for a defined caseload. Undertake comprehensive assessments, develop and implement care plans, and carry out ongoing risk assessment and management.

Deliver therapeutic interventions tailored to individual needs, promoting empowerment, independence, and service user involvement in care. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to ensure coordinated, person-centred support.

Organise, lead and contribute to clinical meetings including reviews, MDT discussions and case conferences, ensuring effective communication and shared decision-making. Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality clinical records using electronic systems and ensure compliance with professional and organisational standards.

Manage a varied workload, prioritising effectively while working both autonomously and as part of a team. Provide mentorship and support to junior staff, students and colleagues, contributing to a positive learning environment.

Engage in audit, quality improvement and service development activities, supporting the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care. Adhere to safeguarding, risk management and relevant policies to ensure the wellbeing of service users, carers and staff.

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

Details

• Date posted: 02 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Based on full time hours
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 348-PSE-11534
• Job locations: St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth), Milton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 6AD, United Kingdom

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.