Mental Health Practitioner- Homeless Health Care inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED 12 DEC 2023

Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year  PERMANENT 

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Are you driven to tackling mental health-inequalities in our diverse multi-cultural homeless population in Southampton?

If you're someone who is passionate about providing high-quality holistic care and advocating for marginalised societal groups, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this unique and varied role within our Homeless Health Care Team.

We welcome applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals (AHP) including Occupational Therapists or Art/ Music Therapists.

You will have a good range of mental health knowledge and experience working with individuals who have experienced mental health issues.

You will be responsible for care-coordinating a small caseload of service users who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness who find it difficult to engage with mental health and drug & alcohol services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex biopsychosocial problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths-based and recovery-focussed way to support services users to meet their mental health needs.

You will have excellent communication skills to enable you to foster relationships and engage with a variety of individuals from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and partner agencies including CGL, Probation services and Southampton City Council local authority.

You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans.

You will be a positive role-model, reflecting a commitment to maintaining a culture of learning from incidents and valuing two-way feedback.

You will be responsible for providing supervision arrangements, to ensure practitioners are offered opportunities to develop their skills, knowledge and keep up-to-date with current practice.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Are you driven to tackling mental health-inequalities in our diverse multi-cultural homeless population in Southampton?

If you're someone who is passionate about providing high-quality holistic care and advocating for marginalised societal groups, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this unique and varied role within our Homeless Health Care Team.

We welcome applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals (AHP) including Occupational Therapists or Art/ Music Therapists.

You will have a good range of mental health knowledge and experience working with individuals who have experienced mental health issues.

You will be responsible for care-coordinating a small caseload of service users who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness who find it difficult to engage with mental health and drug & alcohol services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex biopsychosocial problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths-based and recovery-focussed way to support services users to meet their mental health needs.

You will have excellent communication skills to enable you to foster relationships and engage with a variety of individuals from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and partner agencies including CGL, Probation services and Southampton City Council local authority.

You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans.

You will be a positive role-model, reflecting a commitment to maintaining a culture of learning from incidents and valuing two-way feedback.

You will be responsible for providing supervision arrangements, to ensure practitioners are offered opportunities to develop their skills, knowledge and keep up-to-date with current practice.



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