Mental Health Practitioner

Integrated Care System; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

As a PCN Mental Health Practitioner at a leading healthcare system, you will play a crucial role in transforming community mental health services. Your responsibilities will include managing mental health issues, conducting assessments, and providing vital support in a collaborative environment aimed at delivering quality care to patients in GP surgeries.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development opportunities

A supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in delivery of clinical interventions.
• Knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Willingness to train as Sign-off Mentor.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational and clinical mental health issues in GP practices.
• Conduct mental health assessments for patients aged 16 and over.
• Provide a dedicated service bridging Primary and Secondary healthcare.

Skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Clinical judgement

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Mentorship qualification or ENB 998

Job description

As PCN Mental Health Practitioner, you'll play an incredibly important role in transforming community mental health services. We're working collaboratively with the Integrated Care System to offer 'Place Based Care' - ensuring communities receive fast and effective treatment, in the familiar surroundings of their GP surgery.

You'll work with the Lead MHP in your Neighbourhood providing support, treatment, advice, education and problem-solving approaches to members of our community experiencing challenges with their mental health. You'll be providing a dedicated growing service that makes sure individual needs are met in a seamless environment.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health PCN practitioner, you will be responsible for the operational and clinical mental health issues arising in your allocated GP Practice/s. You'll work at a quick pace, autonomously managing your own clinics and will provide an intervention led approach, acting as an incredibly important mental health resource for people who need specialist care and interventions not available through NHS Talking Therapies and not requiring Secondary Care level services. You will work with patients aged 16 years and over (including older people), carrying out Mental Health Assessments and will be an important conduit into specialist mental health services if and where required.

The ideal candidate will be conscientious, kind and compassionate - you'll be able to work well independently but will also have the support of the wider team and training. Driven by the needs of those who use your service,you will need to have good organisational skills, System resource awareness and experience working in a mental health setting. You will be an autonomous practitioner, making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing, and providing high-quality care.

Your role is an unusual and important one, helping to bridge any gaps between Primary and Secondary health care services. You will be comfortable working collaboratively and able to build strong relationships with health care professionals across your network and within your designated GP practices.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

The role of PCN Mental Health Practitioner has already proven itself and has shown to reduce referrals into secondary care were developing and growing the team so need dedicated practitioners to join us, who want to be part of the changes and play a key role.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign- off Mentor
• Good to great management course, or equivalent

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in delivering group based interventions

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.