Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 01 March 2026

Job summary

Are you ready to take on an exciting role at the forefront of adult community mental health services in Southampton?

If you're someone who is innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high-quality holistic care, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this rare and exciting role within our Assertive Outreach Team.

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

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

You will have a broad depth of mental health experience working with individuals who have a severe and enduring mental illness.

You will be responsible for care-coordinating a small caseload of service users with complex long term mental health problems who find it difficult to engage with services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex mental health 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.

You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans and harm-reduction strategies, adopting a 'whole-team' approach.

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

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

Date posted

16 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year Based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-SSW-10429

Job locations

College Keep

4-12 Terminus Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 3DT

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

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

*Qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Allied Health professional such as Occupational Therapist.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Allied Health professional such as Occupational Therapist.

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

UK Registration

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

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)

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)