Primary Care Mental Health Nurse

Integrated Care System; Dudley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Dudley is seeking a Primary Care Mental Health Nurse to provide mental health support in GP practices. Responsibilities include assessing patients, delivering psychological interventions, and supporting practice nurses. The ideal candidate will have RMN registration, strong assessment skills, and experience in community mental health. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals facing mental health challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience in community mental health services or primary mental health care.
• Understanding of psychosocial interventions.
• Knowledge of primary care mental health and PCN.

Responsibilities

• Deliver recovery-focused psychological interventions.
• Support GPs in managing service users on depot medication.
• Act as the first clinical point of contact for screening and assessing healthcare needs.

Skills

Specialist skills in assessing individual intervention plans

Ability to work without supervision

Effective IT and administrative skills

Collaborative working across agencies

Excellent risk assessment skills

Education

RMN Registration or equivalent

Degree level qualification in a relevant subject

Post graduate training relevant to mental health

Job description

Go back Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Care Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 21 August 2025

The post holder will be working within a busy team alongside a team ofregistered mental health nurses and be supported by the Team Manager,Senior Clinical Lead/CBT Practitioner, and team administrators.

Post holders will have a high level of autonomy working across designated GP practices, managing their own clinics and providing mental healthassessment and evidenced based treatment for people aged over 18. You will provide a service to people who exhibit complex common mental health needs and stable, predictable and enduring serious mental health needs. You will be expected to develop and manage all aspects of their service, such as waiting lists according to local need, working within the parameters of the service operational policy.

A key aspect of this role is GP consultation, liaison, education and training. You will be expected to attend GP practice meetings at least twice a year to discuss the service and actively seek feedback and report any issues to the team leader as well as areas for improvement and any innovative practice for sharing and disseminating. Staff will be expected to autonomously manage high volumes of referrals. Staff are expected to work on their own initiative in a busy and demanding service and to be able manage change effectively.

Main duties of the job

To be the first clinical point of contact for the service, effectively screening,assessing and working with service users with complex common mentalhealth needs and stable, predictable and enduring serious mental healthneeds, exercising judgement to identify and assess healthcare needs, andconsider range of options for treatment.

To deliver of Primary care recovery focused Psychological Interventions that meet the need of service users who are too complex and/or not suitable forTalking Therapies yet do not meet the threshold for the Psychological Therapies in Secondary care mental health.

Support Primary care (GP Surgeries) in the management of service users on Depot medication. Depots to be administered by practice nurses. Assist primary care with identifying early warning signs, relapse signatures, follow-up appointments following non-attendance and re-referral back to Secondary Mental Health Services where indicated.

About us

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse with a passion for making a positive impact on people's lives?

Does improving access to high quality, innovative and compassionate services for people with mental health needs drive you?

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a motivated Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join our Primary Care Mental Health Team in Dudley.

Don't miss your opportunity to join a team of highly skilled clinicians working to make a difference in the Black Country.

The successful candidate will join our Primary Care Mental Health (PCMH) service, which bridges the gap between NHS Talking Therapies and Community Mental Health Services. The service provides triage, assessment, signposting, referral and brief NICE guidance interventions delivered through a person-centred and recovery focussed model.

The role of the Primary Care Mental Health Nurse involves working within the team to support adults over the age of 18 years and up, offering both one to one and group evidenced based psychological therapies. The role will include carrying a clinical case load.

All staff are required to undertake specific administrative and preceptor tasks, including record keeping, inputting activity data, audit and participating within business and service development meetings.

If you're someone who is innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high-quality holistic care, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this exciting role

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for full details.

Post holders will support Multi-Disciplinary Team settings models of working.

All staff are required to undertake specific managerial, administrative andpreceptor tasks; including record keeping, inputting activity data, performance management, audit, research activity and participating within business and service development meetings.

The trust supports robust clinical supervision arrangements hence therewould be an expectation to deliver and receive clinical supervision; annual personal development reviews will also be provided. Team members willactively participate in and support the development of new ways of working which will strengthen and support the coordination of a whole systems approach to meeting client need. Members will also be involved in service evaluation, audit, and research initiatives.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• RMN Registration, or equivalent OT, Social Worker
• Higher qualification at least to degree level in a relevant subject
• Post graduate training relevant to Mental Health

Skills/Abilities

• Specialist skills in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans for adults and older adults with mental health problems
• Ability to use own initiative and work without supervision
• Effective IT skills and administrative skills (accurate record keeping)
• Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines
• Excellent risk assessment and management skills

Knowledge/ Experience

• Post registration experience of working in the community mental health services/ primary mental health care
• Working knowledge of relevant legislation and guidelines including adult and children safeguarding legislation; MARAC, DASH
• Understanding of psychosocial interventions
• Experience of using a range of therapeutic interventions in a mental health context e.g. CBT, DTB.
• Knowledge of primary care mental health and PCN (Primary Care Network)
• Organisational and time management skills
• Demonstrates a belief in working within person centre care approach
• Ability to lead and motivate projects and people
• Promotes recovery and social inclusion

Other

• Ability to commute to meet the post requirements
• An ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• A problem-solving approach to professional practice

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.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stourbridge Health and Social Care Centre

Stourbridge Health and Social Care Centre