Primary Care Mental Health GP Plus Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is looking for a dedicated Primary Care Mental Health GP Plus Practitioner to join their team in Stevenage. This role involves providing assessments and interventions while collaborating with GPs and community agencies. The ideal candidate will have experience with mental health needs and a passion for fostering partnerships in Primary Care. The position offers leadership training, generous holiday entitlement, and a robust pension scheme, ensuring a rewarding career in mental health service delivery.

Benefits

27 days holiday rising to 33 days

NHS Car Lease Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of working with individuals with mental health needs.
• Ability to undertake assessments of individuals and their families.
• Experience working alongside various professional groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and brief interventions.
• Develop links with Primary Care Teams.
• Foster a culture of partnership between services.

Skills

Knowledge of mental health needs

Experience in assessments

Ability to work in teams

Job description

We have a vacancy for a Primary Care Mental Health GP Plus Practitioner based in Stevenage and North Herts.

Join us in continuing to deliver our effective primary care mental health services!

This role is in line with the 10 Year Plan for Mental Health and recognises that by placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices, promoting recovery focused early assessment and treatment will help the service user achieve the best outcomes.

• To enable other practitioners in Primary Care to develop their skills and confidence in assessment and treatment of particular mental health problems.
• Facilitate joint work between Primary Care and Secondary Care interface and Primary Care/Voluntary Sector to increase range of services/interventions available.
• To develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices, attending practice meetings and having regular informal contact.
• Interventions will be delivered under Primary care governance and policies whilst also maintaining adherence to HPFT Trust policy.

For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.

The successful candidate will

• provide assessments and brief interventions
• work alongside various professional groups including GPs, other primary care professionals and wider community agencies
• have knowledge and experience of working with individuals with mental health needs
• undertake assessments of individuals and their families within primary care including the assessment of risk in order to consider access or re-access to secondary mental health services
• be a core member of primary care teams within a defined area, using specialist mental health knowledge
• develop links and foster a culture of partnership between Primary Care Teams and HPFT Adult Mental Health Services.

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

• Welcoming
• Kind
• Positive
• Respectful
• Professional