Community Mental Health Practitioner

Are you ready to take on an exciting role working in Adult Mental Health on a full or part-time basis with the Eastleigh Community Mental Health team based at Desborough House in Eastleigh.

If you're innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high-quality holistic care, then we would love to hear from you. You will have a broad depth of mental health experience working with individuals who have severe and enduring mental illness.

You will be responsible for care coordinating a 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 focused way to support service users to meet their mental health needs.

To act as care coordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness. To supervise the work of a small team of practitioners within the wider Community Treatment Team. To undertake ongoing assessment, treatment and evaluation for service users known to the Service.

We will consider applicants from Band 5 practitioners who are looking for their first community post.