Mental Health Practitioner

Mental Health Practitioner

Closing date: 25 January 2026

As a member of our team, you will:
Deliver high-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 indicators. This opportunity also gives you the chance to make a real difference to people's lives through high‑quality, compassionate and integrated care.

We are happy to consider both full and part time hours.

To undertake the lead in the clinical management of a designated group of service users.

To allocate work to junior colleagues, reviewing progress and agreed outcomes.

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in assessing and planning care, monitoring risk and responding to changes in service users' health.

To identify and ensure the provision of the necessary care to service users, to help them safely complete daily living activities, meeting personal hygiene needs, maintaining sufficient diet and fluid intake, maintaining rest, sleep and activity and the monitoring of physical observations.

To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.

To identify and provide appropriate intervention and emotional support for service users and their carers.

To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff and with other professionals and agencies.

To work with service users and carers across all adult age ranges.

To work in flexible ways with service users who may be difficult to engage or demonstrate a degree of diagnostic uncertainty.

To undertake direct work with service users and their families, including formulating care plans, crisis management, and advocacy.

To be confident in using social inclusion, person centred and recovery focussed models of care.

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 Fiberly 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 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.