Remote Working Mental Health Practitioner - A2i

Job summary

We're proud to be Solent and you could be too!

We are looking for a Remote Mental Health Practitioner to join our Access to Intervention Service, whether you are a registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist - we want to hear from you!

This is an exciting new opportunity following on the successful recruitment of several remote consultant psychiatrists. This role will allow you to work remotely from anywhere within the UK! You will be working with the team based in Portsmouth, which serves a diverse inner-city client base. We provide assessments and interventions to individuals who present with a range of mental health needs. We are the access point for Adult Mental Health, assessing and working with our patients to access the most appropriate services, which are tailored to support their mental health and social care needs.

We're passionate about providing you with opportunities to develop and have a wide range of therapies and treatments to train in to continue your learning, which can also be transferable across all other areas of Mental Health.

The working world has changed but our ability to provide quality care to the communities in Portsmouth has only improved! With plenty of profession specific training, leadership opportunities, new ways of working such as virtual consultants and consistently delivering exceptional care by the right professional at the right time.

We want the best for you so you can deliver the best quality care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the A2i Team in Portsmouth City providing an assessment service and up to 6 months follow to people with severe and enduring mental illness.
• To act as a lead professional for Service Users with complex needs ensuring full implementation of the Care Programme Approach Policy
• To provide recovery focussed therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment virtually.
• To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs virtually.
• To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.