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Come join us! We are building an ambitious Primary Care-based Mental Health & Well-being Team. This opportunity is for a Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (ARRS) who is a Registered Professional to work within Nuneaton and Bedworth & Apollo Primary Care Network. This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic people to join us and build on the existing multi-disciplinary PCN teams to support the mental health and well-being needs of local communities. You will be employed by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust but embedded within a group of GP practices with a focus on supporting local patients living across North Warwickshire. These roles are directly patient facing, so you will have a meaningful impact on improving the access, experience and outcomes for service users daily. The local teams will work in partnership with higher acuity mental health services (delivered in this area by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust), offering care at the point of need which suits individual patient needs. Each team will work together with support from their practices, to ensure they are delivering the best care they can. If you are passionate about making a difference and can use your expertise to improve mental health and wellbeing, then we want to hear from you!

• To act as a Liaison worker between Secondary Care Mental Health Provider and Primary Care.
• To support clinical decisions and discussions for patients who are not known to SCMH services or those who are open to Community mental health services and to support GPs who need advice.
• To review patients in primary care and assess where their needs can be best met. To support discussions on those patients in primary care who have been discharged or not engaged with SCMH services.
• The roles will enhance patient journeys and create better joint working across primary care and adult secondary care mental health systems and will make it easier for patients to obtain the help they need.
• To offer brief interventions to people who have mental health needs, but that do not need a referral into SCMH services, including facilitating short-term case management offering professional advice, joint support and information.
• To work closely with social prescribers and other professionals within the PCN multi-disciplinary team to support the patient to access the right services in the right place and at the right time.
• To develop and maintain collaborative links with the third sector to provide clinical advice and support to the Mental Health social prescribers or equivalent within Primary Care.
• To provide one day per week with each GP surgery in the PCN (locally agreed) and attend and participate in the PCN Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings.
• To ensure service users are more quickly supported to the right service utilising the PCN social prescribers or equivalent.
• Build long-term relationships and improve communications with primary care colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Enhance the skills and capacity in primary care and VCS through training and facilitation of joint working with the social prescribers.
• To offer advice or obtain advice for primary care colleagues to plan appropriate and timely intervention.
• To participate in proactive mental health promotion and wellbeing initiatives (e.g., World Suicide Prevention Day / World Mental Health Day).
• Support smooth transition between primary and secondary care services if required.
• Improve access to mental health services for service users and carers at the first point of contact as required.
• Participate in receiving and screening referrals that the Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner can then complete a mental health assessment and complete comprehensive risk and evidenced-based decisions.
• To recognise and describe effectively symptoms of mental illness and distress and escalate concerns effectively and in a timely manner, including decisions with SCMH colleagues / GPs and social prescribers; signpost to appropriate services and provide feedback to referrers.
• To record assessments / risk assessments and care plans in CWPT specified systems.
• To link in with locality community mental health duty teams to discuss open referrals or seek advice.
• For patients presenting in crisis, the post holder may support or work with the GP referral process to Mental Health Access Hub.
• To communicate and provide case studies and other required information to internal (CWPT / GP) and external stakeholders.
• To make telephone contact with patients within 5 working days as appropriate.
• To agree with the patient brief interventions to be offered (maximum 4 weeks) or other support such as referral to social prescribers, referral to IAPT or SCMH as appropriate.
• To participate as an effective member of the PCN MDT and be responsible for the development and implementation of a person-centred approach to care: screening and decision making for referrals, identifying the needs of service users and their carers.
• Facilitate onward referral to the Voluntary sector via social prescribers.
• Facilitate short-term case management within Primary Care offering professional advice, joint support and information.
• Use specialist assessment skills to undertake high quality Brief Solution Focused work when appropriate and facilitate referral for appropriate treatment if required within SCMH.
• To determine priority, need and plan service user intervention, including risk assessment and onward referral when presentations are complex.
• To meet the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the individual and their family, using research-based knowledge and skills to maintain the individual’s identity.
• To recognise the needs of the family/carers, ensuring their involvement in support where appropriate whilst offering advice and education.
• To apply specialist clinical knowledge and experience to provide education for service users to develop a greater understanding of their mental health condition and working in a person-centred way to help develop life skills and coping strategies.
• To discuss present performance and future needs with the PCN project development team and attend meetings as delegated.
• To provide clinical supervision of Social prescribers based with the PCN and prepare data for activity reports as required.
• Participate in the implementation of policy to develop the role with the PCN project group and contribute to development of the role and service through awareness and engagement with the PCN project team.
• To facilitate improved patient and family/carer experience, improved liaison and co-working with partners, and timely interventions.
• To support the reduction in carer crisis, hospital admissions and inequality and to support with the prevention of escalation to specialist/acute services and reduce inappropriate referrals to Community Mental Health Teams.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025