Practitioner for Early Intervention in Psychosis Service

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker looking to be part of a motivated, professional, and committed multi-disciplinary team. The Early Intervention Service who works with individuals who have a range of psychosis related problems are looking for a Practitioner to join.

As a practitioner you will be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care for a defined caseload of patients, age 14-65 years with regular supervision and guidance from a designated supervisor. You will be personally responsible and professionally accountable for a service user caseload within the community, focusing on service users with or suspected of having a First Episode Psychosis. Provide a high-quality care and treatment in conjunction with other professionals through the Trust's agreed multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment care programme.

This is a full time Monday to Friday 9:00-17:00 role based at Hillcrest Ensbury Park, part time applications would be considered with opportunities for flexible working. Being a driver is essential for this role.

For further information, please contact Simon Potterton, Service Lead at or on

You will promote and participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment and development of treatment/care programmes and reviews.

Administration of medication, ensuring compliance with nursing responsibilities under the Medicines Act (1971), the local care of Drugs policy and other relevant Trust clinical procedures (according to clinical registration).

Act as a Care Co-ordinator and fully implement and adhere to the Trust policies on Integrated CPA and Risk Assessment.

Deliver in the provision of specialist interventions i.e. Family Interventions or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis CBTp (according to skills).

This role includes a £3,000 Recruitment Premium lump sum on commencement of employment and thereafter a further £1,500 Retention Premium per annum (pro-rata), paid in equal monthly instalments provided you remain in post and subject to review by the Trust.

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here – it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Simon Potterton Job title: Service Lead Email address: Telephone number:

We encourage you to contact us for informal conversations about the role, we are able to organise a visit to come and meet the team.