We have an exciting opportunity to join our Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner Team as a Mental Health Practitioner based in Tamworth, Staffordshire. If you hold a professional registration in nursing, occupational therapy, or social work, and are interested in creating a responsive and holistic mental health service within a primary care setting, this may be the role for you.
Significantly more investment in Voluntary, Non-statutory services is being made as part of our transformation work to support you in helping your patients access the services they need. To drive this programme forward, we need qualified mental health professionals with the passion, enthusiasm, and skills to be part of this exciting new way of providing community mental healthcare.
It's an exciting time to join us as we are a developing service, and you will play a pivotal role in supporting the development of this service. You will work with one or more primary care networks in the South Staffordshire area to provide assessment and brief intervention treatment for individuals presenting with mental health needs. You will carry out mental health assessments following agreed practice guidelines as part of a Primary Care Network Team.
As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will undertake the development, implementation, and review of care planning and risk management, delivering a high-quality clinical service to service users, their families, and carers in primary care. Your responsibilities will include:
1. Assessing people's mental health needs within a primary care setting.
2. Delivering brief, short-term, and low-intensity psychological interventions for people with common mental health disorders.
3. Promoting mental health by developing effective relationships between primary care, local communities, and other services in the voluntary and statutory sectors.
4. Providing support and advice to GPs and other primary care providers.
5. Bridging the gap between primary care and other provider services to ensure fast and effective response times for those accessing services.
6. Demonstrating an attitude that respects the core values of the organisation and the principles of recovery.
You must be fully qualified in the appropriate profession, registered with the relevant professional body, and able to travel independently across a large geographical area.
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return, we will support you through:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave, increasing with service up to 33 days
* Extensive health and wellbeing support and resources
* If working in community teams, we pay for your travel time between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), with gross pay reduced by the vehicle cost before tax, NI, and pension deductions, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2,000
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free annual flu vaccinations
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if criteria met)
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