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Location
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
09 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
30 Jun 2025

Job overview

As PCN Mental Health Practitioner, you’ll play an incredibly important role in transforming community mental health services. We’re working collaboratively with the Integrated Care System to offer ‘Place Based Care’ – ensuring communities receive fast and effective treatment, in the familiar surroundings of their GP surgery.

You’ll work with the Lead MHP in your Neighbourhood providing support, treatment, advice, education and problem-solving approaches to members of our community experiencing challenges with their mental health. You’ll be providing a dedicated growing service that makes sure individual needs are met in a seamless environment.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health PCN practitioner, you will be responsible for the operational and clinical mental health issues arising in your allocated GP Practice/s. You’ll work at a quick pace, autonomously managing your own clinics and will provide an intervention led approach, acting as an incredibly important mental health resource for people who need specialist care and interventions not available through NHS Talking Therapies and not requiring Secondary Care level services.  You will work with patients aged 16 years and over (including older people), carrying out Mental Health Assessments and will be an important conduit into specialist mental health services if and where required.

The ideal candidate will be conscientious, kind and compassionate – you’ll be able to work well independently but will also have the support of the wider team and training. Driven by the needs of those who use your service, you will need to have good organisational skills, System resource awareness and experience working in a mental health setting. You will be an autonomous practitioner, making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing, and providing high-quality care.

Your role is an unusual and important one, helping to bridge any gaps between Primary and Secondary health care services.  You will be comfortable working collaboratively and able to build strong relationships with health care professionals across your network and within your designated GP practices.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role of PCN Mental Health Practitioner has already proven itself and has shown to reduce referrals into secondary care – we’re developing and growing the team so need dedicated practitioners to join us, who want to be part of the changes and play a key role.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!