ARRS Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join a dynamic team in Gillingham, providing essential mental health support within the community. This role involves working closely with GP surgeries and other healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality care. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in mental health and be able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting.
• Demonstrate knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence based practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health support in Primary Care Settings.
• Work as part of the PCN Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Skills

Communication Skills

Assessment Skills

Education

Current professional registration

3 years post qualifications

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

ARRS Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 21 May 2025

This exciting and innovative position will provide mental health support to Gillingham South Primary Care Network (PCN), providing a first contact point for patients with mental health difficulties presenting to their GP.

We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner: nurses/social workers/ and occupational therapist to work in the PCN as part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS).

It is an exciting time to join services in Kent as we currently undertaking a programme of transformation of community Mental Health services, and these roles are the building blocks for those developments. You will primarily work in the PCN as a member of the integrated team in GP surgeries.

Main duties of the job

The practitioner will be embedded as part of the PCN Multi-Disciplinary Team. Working alongside the other roles, they will also have close links with Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust services. The practitioner will provide a "bridge" between these services, delivering high quality mental health care in Primary Care Settings.

The role requires a highly competent, proficient practitioner, who is able to work autonomously & creatively in this busy demanding role. Excellent assessment skills and knowledge of local resources is essential to this role, as it is the gate keeper and guardian for referral to secondary care services.

We are seeking experienced Mental Health Practitioners who can come and make a difference. Providing high quality interventions in our new primary care integrated mental health service, you will be an important member of our primary care team.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

• oExperience: Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting

Qualifications

• oQualifications: min of 3 years post qualifications; Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work

Knowledge

• oKnowledge: Demonstrate knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence based practice in caring for patients in the designated field

Communication

• oCommunication Skills: Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, cares/ families and all members of the multidisciplinary team

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.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust