ARRS Mental Health Practitioner - Band 7

Job overview

1 x 37.5 hours per week Fixed Term contract/secondment opportunity for up to 12 months and 1 x 22.5 hour per week Permanent opportunity

*Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment*

Mental Health Practitioner under ARR Scheme for Gloucester Inner City Primary Care Network

We are looking to recruit 1.6 whole time equivalent post at  Band 7, Mental Health Practitioner under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (MHP ARRS).

This is an exciting opportunity to improve the experience for individuals with mental health needs through offering early assessment and access to treatment and support to promote mental health and well-being within primary care.

This Post covers: Gloucester Inner City Primary Care Network which includes Quayside House and Matson Lane Surgery

Main duties of the job

The ARRS Practitioner will be an integrated member of the GP practice team and will take the lead in ensuring best practice is delivered across your allocated GP surgeries. The role requires working autonomously in providing high volume assessment, diagnosis, and treatment appointments, advice and support for GPs in caring for other patients with mental health issues, improve links with and navigation to community providers and will also support the practice with providing annual reviews for patients on the practices’ Mental Health Registers. The MH Practitioner will work within a number of GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network.

For more information contact: Hannah Rigby ([email protected])

Enthusiasm, an ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues across service areas to bring about change and the desire to develop and improve services will be fundamental to these roles. Professional development, governance support, training and supervision will be provided by GHC Trust working collaboratively with colleagues in Primary Care. We welcome external applicants and relocation expenses are available subject to NHS guidelines.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.