Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and innovative Band 6 mental Health Practitioner to join our CMHT. Winchester CMHT is a dynamic, nurturing, and supportive team with excellent peer support and regular supervision. You will manage a reasonable-sized caseload of service users, covering shared care and carrying out assessments. You will be involved in training, mentoring and supervising new and unregistered staff as well as providing excellent front-line clinical care.
Winchester CMHT provides compassionate, kind and recovery-focused care to our patients, carers and their families. You will need to be able to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative. The successful candidates will have sound clinical skills, administration and IT skills including be able to type. You will also need excellent assessment and communication skills. There will be a range of shadowing/training opportunities to introduce you to the care coordination role and you will need to work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery-focused care.
Main duties of the job
To act as care coordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
To supervise the work of a small team of practitioners within the wider Community Treatment Team.
To undertake ongoing assessment, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the Service.
To deputize for the Team Leader as required.
To work in a flexible hour's service (this includes being on a staff rota providing services outside of office hours and at weekends and bank holidays).
To coordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
To provide clinical supervision and caseload management to junior colleagues
To formulate care plans in line with identified need.
To provide therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment
To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
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.
Job description
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Other relevant post-qualification training (e.g. CBT).
Experience
Essential
- Maintain an individual caseload and complete team responsibilities.
- Develop, co-ordinate and delivers personalised health and social needs assessments and care planning; working in collaboration with the individuals, their families/carers and support networks
- Assess and analyse risk/ ongoing risks to ensure personalised risk and safety plans, balancing risk management and safeguarding with choice, self-determination and positive risk-taking underpinned by relevant legislation
- Interpret and use current legislation and guidance to protect and/or advance people's rights and entitlements.
- Focus on strength/ asset-based working, to support people to make positive self-directed change within their lives and engage with their communities.
- Working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust supporting adults and carers to access services/support in the statutory, independent, and non-statutory sector.
Desirable
- Provide expertise to the multidisciplinary team with regards to adult and children's safeguarding responsibilities.
- Promote family and carers work.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Understand the complex needs and mental health inequalities relevant to this group.
- Maintain and provide expertise with regards to application of legislation including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Equality Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Health Act and other legislation relevant to the remit of the team.
- Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Demonstrate a specialised understanding of models and approaches relevant to adult mental health.
Desirable
- Trained in psychological and therapeutic approaches and able to integrate these approaches into the social work role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Other relevant post-qualification training (e.g. CBT).
Experience
Essential
- Maintain an individual caseload and complete team responsibilities.
- Develop, co-ordinate and delivers personalised health and social needs assessments and care planning; working in collaboration with the individuals, their families/carers and support networks
- Assess and analyse risk/ ongoing risks to ensure personalised risk and safety plans, balancing risk management and safeguarding with choice, self-determination and positive risk-taking underpinned by relevant legislation
- Interpret and use current legislation and guidance to protect and/or advance people's rights and entitlements.
- Focus on strength/ asset-based working, to support people to make positive self-directed change within their lives and engage with their communities.
- Working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust supporting adults and carers to access services/support in the statutory, independent, and non-statutory sector.
Desirable
- Provide expertise to the multidisciplinary team with regards to adult and children's safeguarding responsibilities.
- Promote family and carers work.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Understand the complex needs and mental health inequalities relevant to this group.
- Maintain and provide expertise with regards to application of legislation including the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Equality Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Health Act and other legislation relevant to the remit of the team.
- Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Demonstrate a specialised understanding of models and approaches relevant to adult mental health.
Desirable
- Trained in psychological and therapeutic approaches and able to integrate these approaches into the social work role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
