Mental Health Practitioner- Homeless Health Care

Job summary

Are you driven to tackling mental health-inequalities in our diverse multi-cultural homeless population in Southampton?

If you're someone who is passionate about providing high-quality holistic care and advocating for marginalised societal groups, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this unique and varied role within our Homeless Health Care Team.

We welcome applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals (AHP) including Occupational Therapists or Art/ Music Therapists.

Main duties of the job

You will have a good range of mental health knowledge and experience working with individuals who have experienced mental health issues.

You will be responsible for care-coordinating a small caseload of service users who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness who find it difficult to engage with mental health and drug & alcohol services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex biopsychosocial problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths-based and recovery-focussed way to support services users to meet their mental health needs.

You will have excellent communication skills to enable you to foster relationships and engage with a variety of individuals from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and partner agencies including CGL, Probation services and Southampton City Council local authority.

You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans.

You will be a positive role-model, reflecting a commitment to maintaining a culture of learning from incidents and valuing two-way feedback.

You will be responsible for providing supervision arrangements, to ensure practitioners are offered opportunities to develop their skills, knowledge and keep up-to-date with current practice.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

College Keep

4-12 Terminus Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 3DT

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

College Keep

4-12 Terminus Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 3DT

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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