Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7037611-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Warwickshire, Atherstone
- Town
- Atherstone
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
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Job overview
Come join us!
We are building an ambitious Primary Care-based Mental Health & Well-being Team
This are opportunity is for a Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (ARRS) who is a Registered Professionals to work within North Arden Primary Care Network
This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic people to join us and build on the existing multi-disciplinary PCN (Primary Care Network) teams to support the mental health and well-being needs of local communities.
You will be employed by Coventry and Warwickshire and Partnership Trust but be 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 on a daily basis.
These 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!.
Main duties of the job
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 there 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. This will include 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 PCNs Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings.
Working for our organisation
We exist to make a positive difference to the health and wellbeing of people and communities who need our services. This is our core purpose and the reason we come to work every day. We provide a full range of physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. The Trust currently holds a 'Good' CQC rating.
We care for you as much as you care for others, and we offer a wide range of support services and benefits to promote staff wellbeing and a good work-life balance, including flexible working.
Our dedicated People Hub brings together all our support services including COPE, our in-house counselling service, emotional support through Staff in Mind, and much more. Our Employee Assistance Programme has a 24/7 helpline for advice and guidance with anything that is on your mind, work-related or not, as well as a salary sacrifice scheme.
We’re pleased to be able to offer flexible working, with arrangements including agile working, compressed hours, or staggered hours. We are happy to support people with caring responsibilities and those who are themselves experts by experience.
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have, please get in touch!
Please don’t hesitate in getting in touch if you would like to discuss this role in more detail:
Rebecca Harris – Primary Care Mental Health Service Manager [email protected]
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Ensure service users are more quickly supported to the right service utilising the PCN social prescribers or equivalent.
- Provide dedicated support and presence within primary care settings 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 pro-active mental health promotion and wellbeing initiatives (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. This may include decisions made with SCMH colleagues / GP’s and social prescribers. Decisions may include signposting to the appropriate services, either within the CWPT, or externally as appropriate, and providing advice and feedback to referrers.
- To record any assessment / assessment of risk and plan for each person they see on CWPT specified systems
- To link in with locality community mental health duty teams to discuss any open referrals or for advice.
- For patients presenting in crisis, the post holder may be required to support / or in conjunction with the GP referral process to Mental Health Access Hub.
- To communicate and provide case study’s and any other required 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 user 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 on for appropriate treatment if required within SCMH.
- To determine priority, need and plan service user intervention, where service user presentations are complex, include risk assessment and support onward referral to the appropriate service.
- 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 with service users to help develop their awareness of their condition, life skills and coping strategies.
- To discuss present performance and future needs with the PCN project development team.
- To attend meetings with the PCN project development team as delegated and requested and participate and feedback information as appropriate.
- To provide clinical supervision of Social prescribers based with the PCN
- To prepare data for activity reports as required
- Participate in 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, timely interventions.
- To support the reduction in carer crisis, hospital admissions and inequality
- To support with the prevention of de/escalation to specialist/acute services and reduce inappropriate referrals to Community Mental Health Teams.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience in Mental health community services including, needs and interventions required for routine referrals and to have a theoretical knowledge of this.
- Highly developed clinical skills with an in-depth knowledge of mental health assessment and current practice
- Ability to work across services and organisations
- Ability to lone work and manage clinical caseload and prioritise as required
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of patients’ rights within the Care Act / Mental health act and within confidentiality legislation in order to comply with the requirements of relevant legislation and local information governance policies and codes of practice and the Section 75 agreement
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience working with individuals or professional groups
- Knowledge and experience in Mental health community services including, needs and interventions required for routine referrals and to have a theoretical knowledge of this.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered professional qualification (RMN/Social worker/Occupational Therapist)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Rebecca Harris
- Job title
- Primary Care Mental Health Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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