Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Brief Interventions Waverley

Overview

In this role, you join the Waverley Neighbourhood Mental Health Team to deliver community-based care for adults with established mental health needs. You will manage a complex caseload, perform comprehensive assessments, and provide psychosocial interventions to support recovery and independence. You will collaborate with GPs, primary care teams, service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care. A focus on shaping a major new community care approach and effective care navigation anchors the role.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload and undertake comprehensive assessments
• Deliver psychosocial interventions to support recovery and independence
• Collaborate with service users, carers and partner agencies for coordinated care
• Work closely with General Practitioners and primary care teams for assessments, brief interventions and care navigation
• Ensure smooth coordination between secondary and primary care services
• Contribute to developing and shaping a transformative community-based mental health care approach

Key requirements

• Professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy or Social Work
• Current UK professional registration (NMC/HCPC/SWE)
• Further professional training or equivalent community experience at post-qualification level
• Clinical supervision training
• Valid driving licence and unrestricted use of a car or motorcycle for work
• UK right to work in the role

• communication
• collaboration
• empathy
• psychosocial intervention techniques
• case management
• comprehensive assessments

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