Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

The Winchester and Test Valley CAMHS team are seeking a full time Mental Health Practitioner to join the already well established and supportive team. The post holder will work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will provide specialist assessment and interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families, and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and the wellbeing of service users and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan, and implement care, and provide specialist advice and interventions including supporting other members of the team. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for students. They will provide line management responsibilities if required within the designated area. They will participate in review of clinical policies and guidelines relevant to the area and support and implement changes to practice; liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice; be able to undertake audit activity. Understand psychosocial interventions to include psychoeducation, wellness recovery action plans and discharge planning.

Main duties of the job

To provide a highly specialised range of clinical interventions relevant to the care group and have knowledge of evidence-based models of practice

To manage a caseload of clients with complex health needs.

To work in partnership with the individual, child or young person, their families and carers as appropriate to ensure the delivery of the care plan, and to enable the development of a plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well being and support their independence and inclusion in the community, by using recognised age appropriate self management tools where applicable. This may include working closely with partner agencies such as voluntary sector agencies, schools and colleges which may be able to more appropriately help the service user complete these tools.

To develop care plans that meet the needs of the individual and their family/carers as appropriate and that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

To plan and implement children or young people centred individual, family and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.

To monitor medication prescribed to an individual child or young person, providing information and advice.

To take a lead on clinical matters and policy development relating to professional practice.

To provide clinical leadership.

To be part of recruitment and selection process of staff.

To develop and participate in the delivery of a supervision structure for team members.

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

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Advertiser House

24-32 London Street

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 2PE

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

Advertiser House

24-32 London Street

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 2PE

Employer's website

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

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