Primary Care Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

The post holder will be working within a busy team alongside a team of registered mental health nurses and be supported by the Team Manager, Senior Clinical Lead/CBT Practitioner, and team administrators.

Post holders will have a high level of autonomy working across designated GP practices, managing their own clinics and providing mental health assessments and evidenced based treatment for people aged over 18. You will provide a service to people who exhibit complex common mental health needs and stable, predictable and enduring serious mental health needs. You will be expected to develop and manage all aspects of their service, such as waiting lists according to local need, working within the parameters of the service operational policy.

A key aspect of this role is GP consultation, liaison, education and training.  You will be expected to attend GP practice meetings at least twice a year to discuss the service and actively seek feedback and report any issues to the team leader as well as areas for improvement and any innovative practice for sharing and disseminating. Staff will be expected to autonomously manage high volumes of referrals. Staff are expected to work on their own initiative in a busy and demanding service and to be able manage change effectively.

previous candidates and agencies need not to apply.

Main duties of the job

To be the first clinical point of contact for the service, effectively screening  assessing and working with service users with complex common mental health needs and stable, predictable and enduring serious mental health needs , exercising judgement to identify and assess healthcare needs, and consider range of options for treatment.

To deliver of Primary care recovery focused Psychological Interventions that meet the need of service users who are too complex and/or not suitable for Talking Therapies yet do not meet the threshold for the Psychological Therapies in Secondary care mental health.

Support Primary care (GP Surgeries) in the management of service users on Depot medication. Depots to be administered by practice nurses. Assist primary care with identifying early warning signs, relapse signatures, follow-up appointments following non-attendance and re-referral back to Secondary Mental Health Services where indicated.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for full details.

Post holders will support Multi-Disciplinary Team settings models of working.

All staff are required to undertake specific managerial, administrative and preceptor tasks; including record keeping, inputting activity data, performance management, audit, research activity and participating within business and service development meetings.

The trust supports robust clinical supervision arrangements hence there  would be an expectation to deliver and receive clinical supervision; annual personal development reviews will also be provided.

Team members will actively participate in and support the development of new ways of working which will strengthen and support the coordination of a whole systems approach to meeting client need. Members will also be involved in service evaluation, audit, and research initiatives.