Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting 24-month secondment opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner within the New Forest CMHT (East) team in Totton. The role involves care-coordinating a caseload of service users with complex long-term mental health problems, assessing and formulating individual intervention plans, and working in a strengths-based, recovery-focused way. You will need broad mental health experience and current knowledge of NHS policies and practices. This position is open only to applicants from the Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system.
Essential criteria
- Mental Health Practitioner
- Relevant professional qualification
- Computer skills
- Mentorship course / evidence of CPD
- Clinical supervision training
- Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post
- Mental Health Practitioner
- Relevant professional qualification
- Computer skills
- Mentorship course / evidence of CPD
- Clinical supervision training
- Ability to fulfil travel requirements of the post
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
The New Forest CMHT (East) team based in Totton, near Southampton has an exciting opportunity for a 24-month secondment, on a full-time basis for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner.
If you're innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high-quality holistic care, then we would love to hear from you. You will have a broad depth of mental health experience working with individuals who have severe and enduring mental illness.
You will be responsible for care-coordinating a caseload of service users with complex long-term mental health problems who find it difficult to engage with services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex mental health problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths-based and recovery-focused way to support service users to meet their mental health needs.
Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or
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