Job summary
Do you find it rewarding to support people living with severe and enduring mental illness as they work towards recovery and achieve personal goals? Are you looking for a role where you can make a genuine difference within a supportive team?

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join Winchester Community Mental Health Team. We are a welcoming, dynamic team committed to collaboration, professional development and high-quality patient care. Staff benefit from regular supervision, opportunities to develop specialist skills, contribute to service improvement and work within an inclusive culture.

As Care Coordinator for an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness, you will provide assessment, treatment, care planning and ongoing evaluation to promote recovery and wellbeing. You will manage depot antipsychotic medication clinics and outreach, lead physical health clinics and outreach, and work closely with service users, carers, families and partner agencies.

You will supervise practitioners within the wider Community Treatment Team, contribute to service development and deputise for the Team Leader when required. The role requires sound clinical judgement, excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively. If you are passionate about person-centred care and helping people achieve their goals, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To coordinate the care of an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness
• To manage depot antipsychotic medication clinics and outreach
• To provide clinical supervision and caseload management to junior colleagues
• To formulate care plans in line with identified needs
• 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 users needs

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

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.

Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified as a registered mental health nurse, or dual trained nurse.
• Mentorship course / evidence of CPD
• Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post
• Clinical supervision training
• More than 2 years' experience of working with clients with severe and enduring mental health needs

Desirable

• Completion of in-depth safeguarding training.
• Additional qualifications in psychosocial interventions, substance misuse or brief interventions are desirable
• Leadership training

Experience
Essential

• Working knowledge and application of the recovery model in collaboration with service users.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Evidence of effective teamwork and leadership skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy).
• Ability to organize self and others to achieve tasks.
• Ability to motivate service users.
• Ability to work autonomously
• Theoretical knowledge of MHA legislation and the responsibilities that accompany it
• Awareness of local and national mental health developments
• Knowledge of the CPA process.
• Assessment skills
• Provide clinical supervision
• Experience of mentorship (or equivalent) in practice
• Working knowledge of the application of Professional Code of Conduct.
• Good IT skills

Desirable

• Evidence of experience in the education of nurses and/or multi-professional groups
• Evidence of report writing.
• Evidence of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.
• Experience of working in a Clozapine Clinic (nurses only)
• Experienced in giving depot injections (nurses only)

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Be a team player and have a willingness to help others.
• Be caring, compassionate and nurturing
• Confident, respectful, self-reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, enthusiastic.
• Adaptable, affable.
• Honest and trustworthy
• Aware of personal and professional boundaries
• Respect for service users and their carers
• An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care and care plan
• Commitment to personalized, recovery-oriented care
• Commitment to own continual professional development

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