Mental Health Nurse or Mental Health Social Worker

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Rivers Community Mental Health Team for an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker to join our established multidisciplinary team.

We are looking for a skilled practitioner who shares our commitment to delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care to adults experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician who enjoys working collaboratively, developing therapeutic relationships and making a meaningful difference to the lives of service users and their families.

Main duties of the job

To act as Care Coordinator for an allocated caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental health conditions, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care in line with relevant legislation, policy and service standards.

To undertake comprehensive assessment, care planning, intervention, treatment, review and evaluation for service users receiving support from the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT).

To provide day-to-day supervision, support and guidance to junior colleagues within the wider Community Treatment Team, promoting safe and effective practice.

To work collaboratively with service users, carers, colleagues and partner agencies to support recovery, manage risk and promote positive outcomes.

To deputise for the Team Leader as required, providing operational support and leadership within the team.

To participate in the delivery of a flexible service, including working on a rota to provide services outside of normal office hours, including weekends and bank holidays, in accordance with service requirements.

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

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.