Senior Mental Health Practitioner Band 6

Job summary

As an RMN in our team you will deliverhigh quality holistic care for people with severe and enduring mental illness. You will be expected to work collaboratively with other clinicians and GPs to contribute to annual health reviews risk assessments and risk management and achieve key performance indicator. This opportunity also gives you the chance to make a real difference to individuals lives through high quality compassionate and integrated care.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Your primary caseload will include patients registered with GPs within the Andover CMHT catchment area.This offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your knowledge and build strong working relationships with local Primary Care Networks.To work in line with all relevant policies and procedures. This is including care planning risk and safeguarding. Helping with Depot and Clozapine clinics. Holding a small caseload of patients. Supporting housebound patients in the community. To alert the Team Leader or Manager to any concerns in a timely manner

Communication To develop a professional relationship with service users based on principles of recovery, such as hope, opportunity and choice. To record agreed outcome measures. To accurately record all contacts with service users in the Rio electronic record in line with Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Healthcare FT record keeping policy. To ensure effective communication with service users their relatives and carers. To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation as well as policies and procedures. To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user and complies with legislation. To respond to questions or concerns from service users and carers in a timely and professional manner. To be aware of professional boundaries in keeping with Trust policy.

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: 18 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-MNH-12333
• Job locations: Andover Health Hub, The Chantry Centre, Chantry Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1RL, 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).