Mental Health Practitioner PCN

Mental Health Practitioner - Winchester City PCN

The closing date is 22 February 2026

This is an exciting opportunity to support local people living with mild to moderate mental health needs within our Primary Care Network (PCN). We are seeking a registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to play a key role in developing and delivering our enhanced primary care mental health offer.

You will join a friendly, established team committed to compassionate, patient centred care. Working across GP surgeries and primary care settings, you will triage and assess patients, provide brief psychosocial interventions, and signpost to appropriate services. You will offer specialist clinical advice to GPs, supporting safe, effective decision making and strengthening the interface between Primary and Secondary Mental Health Services.

You will be professionally accountable for your clinical practice and will contribute to the ongoing development of the Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Team, with opportunities to deputise for the team lead when required.

Please note:

One of the 4 days that the successful candidate will be required to work on is a Thursday, the remaining 3 days can be discussed at interview.

• To participate in CMHT MDT meetings and MDT within a Primary care setting as required and deputise as chair if required.
• Communicating service user needs and be able to assist in prioritising the allocation of workload through the triage/referral's meetings. Deputising as chair when required.
• To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
• To work in collaboration with patients as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.
• To assess, coordinate and broker the needs of services users in primary care and other relevant agencies in partnership with the service user.
• To accurately record all contacts with service users in the appropriate care system in line with the relevant record keeping policy.
• To ensure effective communication with service users, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.
• To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, 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.

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.

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…