# Primary Care Mental Health Lead

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-mental-health-lead/78bcb489-8333-40e5-9598-32b8671e51a3
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-mental-health-lead/78bcb489-8333-40e5-9598-32b8671e51a3.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Hollins Park Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group)
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04T13:11:28.547Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Kirkby/Mersey_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Primary_Care_Mental_Health_Services/Primary_Care_Mental_Health_Services-v8231711
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8231711?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exiting opportunity has arisen to join the Primary Care Mental Health Team as a Mental Health Lead in Kirkby.

This is an exiting post improving collaboration between primary care secondary care services to support patients getting access to the right service, at the right time, in the right place.

This post will be working closely with Kirkby GP's, Kirkby PCN and Mersey Care to support those with mental health difficulties.

### Main duties of the job

To manage a defined area of responsibility safely and effectively, ensuring the delivery of a high standard of care to the service users by supervising and monitoring a range of multi disciplinary.

To maintain close links with other professionals both internal and external to the Trust to maintain a high quality of service delivery.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Evidence of excellent clinical record keeping
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills.
- Undertaken a leadership programme.
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources

**Desirable**

- Evidence continued leadership development

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Demonstrates ability and Knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians

**Desirable**

- Evidence continued leadership development

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant evidence of post registration experience, in relevant service areas.
- Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups.
- Understanding of Adult safeguarding issues
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Evidence of audit's undertaken and outcomes.

**Desirable**

- Experience of presentations at local, regional, national level.
- Experience of providing supervision to others, and experience in a leadership role.
- Competent in using databases and spread sheets

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Relevant professional qualification – RMN / Occupational Therapist

**Desirable**

- NMP Qualification
- Completed course/module research methods

## Documents

- [oh risk id (pdf, 504.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541848)
- [employee benefits (pdf, 950.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2853)
- [a great place to work (pdf, 2.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1400)
- [your recruitment journey (pdf, 291.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2941)
- [our people promise and charter (pdf, 5.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2513)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 399.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541643)
- [guidance for applicants: using ai to support your application (pdf, 92.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3044)

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