ARRS Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

ARRS Mental Health Practitioner – Cheltenham Peripheral PCN (covering Sixways Clinic GL52 6HS and Cleevelands Medical Centre GL52 7YU)

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.

Embedded within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), our ARRS Practitioners are outward facing linking seamlessly with the Gloucestershire Health and Care (GHC) NHS Foundation Trust, where we will provide support with supervision and training opportunities. The PCNs provide a welcoming environment for SMHPs making them feel part of their teams team and there is Countywide support from SMHP colleagues based in other practices.

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. The MH Practitioner will work within a number of GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network.

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.

For more information please contact Hannah Rigby (Operational Lead)

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected:

• To work within a multi-professional primary care team to provide a service for adults 18+ with varying levels of mental health needs, including SMI and Complex Emotional Needs that may co-exist with physical health problems within the registered patient population.
• To exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.
• To act as a practice leader, managing your own workload and to work across professional, organisational and system boundaries to improve services and develop practice.
• To navigate, liaise with and refer onto mental health services, voluntary and public sector agencies and community support groups.
• To support the delivery of annual mental health reviews for adults on the practices’ mental health register.
• To provide specialist advice, supervision and support to practice colleagues in relation to patients with mental health issues. In particular to help identify (through Risk Stratification) those patients potentially at risk of relapse to support their continued wellbeing and to reduce their impact on the Health and Wellbeing service as a whole.

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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.