Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
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If you are passionate about improving mental health and interested in working at the forefront of an innovative, collaborative approach with primary and secondary mental health care, then this role may well be for you.
As part of the ongoing transformation of Mental Health service provision, we are looking to recruit a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner post to cover 9 months maternity leave based in Southport. The role will be based directly within GP practices, providing a preventative and ‘hands on’ approach to supporting GPs in the provision of mental health care.
You will work as part of the primary care team, covering all the GP practices within a designated Primary Care Network, adopting a population health approach to ensure the needs of the community are met.
This role is an instrumental part of the wider community transformation programme and you will receive supervision and support from a Mersey Care Mental Health Lead covering the same geographical region as you. You will also receive day‑to‑day support from a Primary Care Lead within your designated Primary Care Network.
This is a new role and there is a requirement to be adaptable and creative. It is an exciting opportunity for innovative working across community providers to improve the quality of mental health services and address health inequalities. The role will evolve in accordance with the needs of the local population and your primary focus will be to ensure that GP practices are supported in the management of people who present to Primary Care with mental health difficulties.
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 is 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: Carys Sergeant, Job title: Primary Care Mental Health Lead, Email address: Carys.Sergeant@merseycare.nhs.uk, Telephone number: 07814456216
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