Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner(UK Visa Sponsorship)

Job Description

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Mental Health Team. This is a key clinical role focused on coordinating care for individuals with complex, severe, and enduring mental health needs within the community.

Working under the guidance of the Deputy Team Manager or Team Manager, you will take professional responsibility for a complex caseload while also providing supervision and support to Band 5 Community Practitioners and Band 3 Community Healthcare Support Workers, where appropriate.

This role is centred on recovery-oriented practice, collaboration, and shared decision-making, ensuring service users and their carers are actively involved in planning and reviewing care.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate and manage a complex caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• Undertake comprehensive mental health assessments when clinically indicated.
• Develop, implement, and regularly review personalised care and risk management plans.
• Deliver recovery-focused therapeutic interventions in line with agreed care plans.
• Assess and manage risk, adapting plans responsively as needs change.
• Work collaboratively with service users as partners in their own care, promoting choice, autonomy, and personalisation.
• Use recognised recovery tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP) and Recovery Star to support empowerment.
• Ensure service users access a full range of interventions, including physical health monitoring, whether delivered directly or via other services.
• Engage proactively with carers and families, recognising their role in recovery.
• Monitor changes in mental health needs and respond promptly to prevent deterioration.
• Participate fully in caseload supervision, team discussions, and service development activity.

About You

You will be a confident and experienced mental health professional with strong clinical judgement and a commitment to recovery-focused care.

Essential requirements:

• Current UK professional registration as a Registered Mental Health Nurse or equivalent Mental Health Practitioner.
• A recognised mentorship qualification.

Desirable experience:

• Previous experience working within a community mental health setting.
• Leadership training or experience supporting and supervising others.

You will be able to work calmly with complex presentations, demonstrate strong communication skills, and model compassionate, accountable practice aligned with Trust values.

About the Trust

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides integrated mental and physical healthcare to approximately two million people across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. With more than 13,000 staff, the Trust delivers care across community settings, hospitals, and specialist services.

Mental health services include community teams, Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP), and specialist inpatient care spanning forensic services, learning disabilities, eating disorders, and older people’s mental health. The Trust also delivers extensive physical health and neurological services, urgent community response teams, and hospital-at-home models, ensuring joined-up care across the system.

All services are guided by the Trust’s CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.

Safeguarding, Registration, and Right to Work

• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
• Applicants must hold current UK professional registration.
• Applications from candidates requiring Skilled Worker visa sponsorship are welcomed and considered in line with national guidance.
• Overseas applicants may be required to provide criminal record certificates for countries lived in over the past 10 years.

Flexible and Inclusive Recruitment

The Trust is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. Flexible working options are actively supported and can be discussed at interview. If you have concerns that any aspect of the person specification may present a barrier to your application, the Recruitment Team will work with you to explore reasonable adjustments wherever possible.

Relevant National and Government Frameworks

This role operates within recognised UK healthcare, workforce, and safeguarding frameworks, including:

NHS England – Community Mental Health Framework: https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/community/

UK Government – Skilled Worker visa guidance: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

UK Government – Equality Act 2010 guidance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance