Mental Health Practitioner

To contribute to the provision of intensive home based treatment, as an alternative to hospital admission.

Providing a 24 hour service across the acute care pathway.

To work proactively in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery., To ensure the provision of intensive home based treatment, as an alternative to hospital admission. To undertake ongoing assessment, implementation and evaluation of care needs of a changing caseload of service users within their home environment.

To work closely with the inpatient units ensuring the effective transition of care across the acute pathway. Ensuring the regular attendance at ward rounds, professionals meetings to identify service users who may benefit from the Hospital at Home Service.

Liaise closely with Community Treatment Teams ensuring the safe discharge of service users following a period of treatment with the Hospital at Home Service.

To work as a lead practitioner in managing a flexible, team based caseload.

To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.

To lead the care for a specified group of service users.

To work in a 24 hour service, on a shift basis.

To undertake supervision and appraisal for a defined number of junior staff. To proactively work in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery.

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.