Senior Mental Health Practitioner

7 days ago


Newport, Newport, United Kingdom Isle of Wight NHS Trust Full time

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our new Access to Intervention team as Senior Mental Health Practitioners.

There has never been a more exciting time to join our team as we are currently in the process or transforming and developing this service.


The team promotes dynamic and innovative way of working responding to crisis referrals, crisis calls, offering a face to face response in a timely manner that is required to meet the needs of the service user and their identified risk.

We will offer a period of 72hrs assessment, brief intervention in various formats if identified, and signposting to appropriate services.

Dependant on experience within the mental health field, the following core professional roles will be considered for these posts - Registered Nurse Mental Health, Registered Nurse Learning Disabilities, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist (Learning Disabilities, Dementia, Children and Young People and Adult Mental Health)


The service is the front door for most of the referrals received into secondary Mental Health Services and cover Urgent and Emergency assessments across the age continuum.

The team also support the Mental Health Crisis Line for the island providing immediate support to those in crisis.


We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are C ompassion, A ccountable, R espect and E xcellence.

Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.


Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population.

Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.


This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.


We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.

Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust - Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - to be formed by April 2024.


People employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.


To work as part of the Access to Intervention service for all referrals into adult mental health on the Isle of Wight.

The post holder will have a professional qualification and will have experience of working with service users experiencing mental health concerns and providing crisis mental health assessments and interventions.


The post holder will work as part of a team triaging referrals, completing assessments, brief intervention and signposting service users to the most appropriate care and treatment pathway.

The post holder will also respond to support and assess people presenting to the mental health services in a state of crisis.

The post holder will provide assessments within the community and police station when required.

The post holder will work shifts patterns over a 24/7 week period.

The Access to Intervention service is active 365 days per year, the post holder will be expected to work a rolling one year on and one year off for the public holidays, including Christmas, Easter and New Year.



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