Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

To practice with a high degree of autonomy within the structure and the wider values of multidisciplinary working.

To focus on the direct needs of patients, working across boundaries of care, organisations and role and to be responsible for the co-ordination of care through the Care Programme Approach.

To have responsibility for an allocated caseload of people with lived experience, to promote their recovery and maintain them in the community environment, helping them to build their own support network.

To assess and support patients to identify their own needs.

To supervise Recovery Support Workers and Peer Support Workers to help devise, implement and evaluate interventions and plans.

To always have the needs of the individual at the fore and use recovery orientated values and skills to underpin day to day work.

To assist the Senior Mental Health Practitioners and supervise Recovery Support Workers in providing agreed standards of care to everyone who uses the Recovery Service.

To ensure that each patient has an individual holistic care plan which identifies any Social Care needs alongside support and guidance to encourage them to access relevant agencies.

To provide telephone support to patients, their families and Carer seeking guidance from Senior Mental Health Practitioners as appropriate.

Job responsibilities

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