Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced registered mental health nurse to work across GP surgeries in the Warrington area, covering multiple sites within standard hours.

You will perform specialist mental health assessments, triage, and signpost patients, operating autonomously within a supportive multidisciplinary team to improve patient access to timely care.

Qualifications

• Must be an NMC-registered mental health nurse.
• Experience in community settings preferred.
• Must be willing to travel between GP surgeries.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health assessments in primary care settings.
• Triage and signpost patients to appropriate services.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team across primary and secondary care.
• Support patient access to timely mental health care.

Skills

NMC Registered

Community Experience

Mental Health Assessment

Autonomous Practice

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a staff member to work in the Warrington area, covering several different GP surgeries within the working hours.

Core working hours are 9am-5pm.

This position is for an experienced registered mental health nurse to work in an exciting, innovative post that supports patients to access mental health support via Primary Care. It is vital that candidates have community experience and understand the role.

• This job is only suitable for a NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse.

The core working hours of this role are 9am - 5pm excluding bank holidays.

Applicants will need to confirm they are able to complete these hours and have the means to be able to travel between the different GP surgeries.

The successful applicant will work in the Primary Care setting, offering specialist Mental health assessment to those patients who have moderate to severe mental health conditions. This role allows the practitioner to work across the interface between Primary Care setting and Secondary Care Mental Health Services to provide advice, support, and assessment to patients. This will allow timelier access to services and ensure that the patient gets the right treatment at the right time and will offer the practitioner the environment to work in an autonomous way.

The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs to ensure they can transition between services with the best support in place.

The post holder will be an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team, effectively triaging and signposting patients into the right team or service to support them in their needs

The post holder will be supported in their role by a variety of other professionals. This includes Pharmacists, GP's, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Leads, Non Medical Prescribers and Psychologists – as well as the management team.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sophie Kenny Job title: Operational Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01925 666647

We would encourage informal visits prior to interview, to gain an understanding of this new and innovative role.