Mental Health Practitioner - West and Central Wight
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join the Community Mental Health Service on the Isle of Wight. You will manage a caseload of people with complex mental health needs, providing evidence-based interventions within a multidisciplinary team. The post holder will also supervise junior team members and work autonomously, contributing to training and teaching programmes.
Key responsibilities
- Provide high quality care and treatment in conjunction with other professionals and agencies.
- Be responsible for providing care, interventions and health promotion to people with severe mental health problems in the community.
- Undertake a supervisory role in respect to multi-disciplinary junior team members.
- Work alongside the Team Leader on clinical issues such as therapeutic approaches and care co-ordination.
- Work as an autonomous practitioner.
- Actively involve yourself in training and teaching programmes within the Trust and wider community.
Essential criteria
- RN [MH] with live NMC registration or OT or Social worker with current professional registration.
- Evidence of on-going development and post registration training.
- Post registration training in evidence based psychological treatments.
- Demonstrable Care Co-Ordinator Competencies.
- Training in Risk assessment and management skills.
- Ability to build on the knowledge, skills and priorities of people working in a range of disciplines.
- Experience in the assessment and management of people with serious and enduring mental health.
- Evidence of undertaking audit work.
- Innovative, creative and a willingness to try new ideas.
- Nurse Mentorship Qualification or relevant professional equivalent.
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 - West and Central Wight
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, creative, positive and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Mental Health Service on the Isle of Wight.
This is an exciting time to join CMHS as we have started working in a locality model, working more closely with physical health services to best support our communities in an integrated and multidisciplinary way.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team managing a caseload of people with complex mental health needs and offering evidence based interventions.
The post holder will be responsible, together with the wider team, for providing care, interventions and health promotion to people with severe mental health problems in the community.
The post holder will also undertake a supervisory role in respect to multi disciplinary junior team members and work alongside the Team Leader on clinical issues such as therapeutic approaches and care co ordination. The post holder will also be expected to work as an autonomous practitioner, as well as taking all opportunities to become actively involved in training and teaching programmes, both within the Trust and the wider community.
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