Senior Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 7th Dec 2025

Anticipated Interview date(s) TBC

Job summary

Are you an experienced Mental Health Professional looking to utilise your clinical skills in a different and rewarding environment?

The Isle of Wight Dementia Outreach Team (DOT) are seeking an ambitious and caring Senior Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join our existing team.

The Dementia Outreach Team are proactive and highly skilled at managing risk and supporting service users on the Isle of Wight who are presenting in crisis. The DOT service are passionate about providing alternative options to hospital admissions, so you can expect to be undertaking rewarding and highly intensive work.

We looking to recruit a compassionate, dedicated, and conscientious individual, who wants to make a positive difference to adults experiencing a dementia-related crisis.

Staff provide care, treatment, and assessment to patients in their own homes and other places of safety, getting you out and about seeing patients in a range of community settings.

If you enjoy working with high-risk cases, are looking to develop as an autonomous, confident practitioner, then we'd love to hear from you

Main duties, tasks & skills required

To ensure and take responsibility for the provision of comprehensive nurse assessment to support the MDT to diagnose a dementia related illness and develop a plan of care post diagnosis of people referred to the memory assessment service.

To plan and take responsibility in collaboration with service users and their carers together with other services/agencies on how people's needs are going to be met in short-term and longer-term situations.

To be active in the development of the service and continued development of professional practice and role.

To ensure that relationships and own behaviour are managed in line with the Trust's Equalities Framework competencies as well as professional codes of practice and the organisations values and behaviours framework.

To ensure all communications are undertaken in a sensitive, confidential and professional manner.

Interdisciplinary working and liaison with internal and external agencies to promote holistic and person-centred, strength-based care and inclusion.

Relocation costs may be considered for the right candidate - this can be discussed at interview.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job description

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.

Person specification
Qualifications
Essential

RMN or Allied health professional (Mental Health) - Evidence based and experience of reflective practice post registration.

Current national legislative and professional requirements relating to social and health care and processes implemented locally (The Care Act 2014, The Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983)

Mentorship /supervision qualifications/training

Experience
Essential

Assessment of risk, crisis management, intervention and management.

Wide knowledge/ appreciation of a range of models of practice in social and health care.

Knowledge of interventions and strategies which embrace social and health care needs.

Good communication and engagement skills,

Solution Focused, Liaison/negotiation and

Decision-making skills

Report writing

Risk assessment and management.

Liaison / negotiation

Additional Criteria
Essential

Ability to use assessment skills and tools effectively.

Good verbal and written communication skills

To undertake all mandatory and Breakaway training (personal safety).

To undertake lone working to patients with mental health concerns.

Ability to work over a range of shifts covering a seven-day period.

Car driver and clean driving licence

Ability to work under pressure and in crisis situations.

Good communication skills.

Good therapeutic skills including empathy, active listening and understanding of therapeutic boundaries Approachable and positive.

Flexible and adaptable.

Broad outlook, accepting of diversity.

Able to engage easily and motivate others.

Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively.

Good verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to prioritise work and complete within deadlines.

Ability to practice in a variety of clinical and community settings and effectively work using group delivery methods.

Ability and confident in challenging discriminatory practices.

Team building.

Brief interventions.

Computer literate

Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings and approaches.

Positive and proactive attitude towards the client/patient group

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

Tara Dyer

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£ to £ Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-Time

Reference number

348-IOW-9744

Job locations

St. Mary's Hospital (IOW)

Parkhurst Road

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5TG

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