Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
Band 7
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
The post is hosted by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), with clinical supervision and management provided from Community Mental Health service leads, and some management within Primary Care. The Mental Health Practitioner Primary Care Practitioner (MHPCP) will be aligned to a Primary Care Networks in Mid Essex. The MHPCP as a band 7 works alongside primary care colleagues to provide specialist mental health expertise and support for patients in Primary Care Networks.
The role will help improve the assessment, treatment, care and support available for people with mental health and will be expected to focus on building a wider understanding of mental health in primary care, the networks and relationships that will be needed, through their work with patients from across the GP practices within their Primary Care Network. In addition to working directly with patients identified by GPs and other primary care staff; will include support with the management of long term conditions where anxiety and depression can often be misunderstood as an exacerbation of symptoms; and support to colleagues through shared learning and consultancy regarding effective management of challenging cases.
Main duties of the job
The role requires you to work with service users and carers, close to their home, to deliver highly accessible and responsive interventions via flexible referral routes. The key principles of the team are to offer interventions within primary care to promote a truly integrated, holistic approach to care.
As a post holder the MHPCP will have a clear focus on prevention, early detection and intervention and will be passionate about promoting self-management, through empowerment and partnership working with service users, embracing the person centred approach to recovery. The interventions offered will be outcome focused and time limited, with the overall aim of recovery and self-management being obtained through meaningful engagement.
Using sound clinical judgment in the delivery of evidence based treatments; the practitioner will promote better management of chronic mental health conditions as well as the management of common mental health disorders.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Create a single path within the sphere of their responsibility and work closely with other Community Mental Health teams to provide a seamless service in order to aid the Patient’s recovery and Well-being plans in the community.
Work in conjunction with the GP, Primary Care team and Consultant Psychiatrists to ensure that patients are supported in the most appropriate clinical practice environment from a Multi-disciplinary perspective.
Ensure safe Clinical Practice takes place, maintaining Care Quality Commission standards at all times and in line with the NHS Constitution.
Triage patients and facilitate them receiving the most appropriate support for their needs ensuring people are not passed around the system and that they are sign posted to the most appropriate service.
Manage and deliver effective and safe services which support the key elements of Clinical/Practice governance.
The post holder will focus on leading the teams to introduce ways of continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding and high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence will flourish.
Person specification
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a Mental Health setting
- Experience of community mental health for a period of 2 years as a Band 6
Transport
Essential criteria
- Full UK Licence
Desirable criteria
- Access to a car for work purposes
Education/Qualifications/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health (RMN) or Qualified SW or OT
- High standard of education
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of professional development
- Training in brief interventions/CBT/PSI or psychological interventions
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marie-Claire Maisch
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07581008580
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