Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Bradford District Care Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner to enhance mental health pathways within primary care. This role offers a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, supporting individuals through holistic assessments and community resource linkages. The successful candidate will play a vital role in promoting mental health awareness and facilitating seamless transitions into secondary care when necessary. With a commitment to flexible working arrangements and a supportive environment, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health services.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Increased mileage rates

Qualifications

• Registered band 6 mental health professional with experience in primary care.
• Ability to provide holistic assessments and link to community resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective signposting based on holistic assessments.
• Collaborate with secondary mental health services for smooth transitions.

Skills

Mental Health Assessment

Holistic Care

Collaboration with MDT

Signposting Services

Education

Registered Nurse

Social Worker

Occupational Therapist

Job description

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Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners (Mental Health Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme) - Bradford PCN4 Primary Care Network (PCN)

This role is an exciting opportunity for a registered band 6 mental health professional (Nurse, Social Worker or OT) to work in a dynamic way across primary and secondary care to bring together mental health pathways and support the understanding of mental health within primary care. The role will provide holistic assessment of services users linking people into the community and VSCE resources as well as providing seamless transition into secondary care if it is needed. The role will also form part of multidisciplinary meetings held by GP Practices within primary care.

The primary care mental health service is expanding and is a key component to our community mental health transformation. It is envisaged that the role will closely link to the community transformation of mental health and the core team that is being established. The role will link to a specific primary care network and work closely with the practices aligned to that network. The successful candidate will be based in GP sites within the PCN during working hours.

Closing date: 06/05/2025

Shortlisting date: 07/05/2025

Interview date: TBC

To actively promote better understanding and knowledge of mental health and wellbeing within primary care to enable the MDT to provide integrated and holistic offers of support.

To take a lead on providing specialist assessment of service users with mental health problems within the primary care setting

To provide effective signposting based on a holistic assessment of an individuals needs making use of a range of resources and services to include VCSE and community based organisations

To provide evidence based, time limited interventions where appropriate and within scope of professional practice and experience

When required, to facilitate swift and seamless transition into other mental health services such as MWBC, CMHT etc,

To work collaborative with secondary mental health services to support effective transitions of service users from secondary mental health services to primary care

To work collaboratively with service users and their families to:

• support shared decision-making around their care and support working on strengths and assets;
• promote recovery and self care
  
  

To inform and influence the ongoing development of new and innovative models of support within primary care and secondary mental health service

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nykhola Harris-Scott Job title: Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07780399413

Seniority level

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  Entry level

Employment type

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