Primary Care Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse with a passion for making a positive impact on people’s lives?

Does improving access to high quality, innovative and compassionate services for people with mental health needs drive you?

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a motivated Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join our Primary Care Mental Health Team in Sandwell.

Don’t miss your opportunity to join a team of highly skilled clinicians working to make a difference in the Black Country.

The successful candidate will join our Primary Care Mental Health (PCMH) service, which bridges the gap between NHS Talking Therapies and Community Mental Health Services. The service provides triage, assessment, signposting, referral and brief NICE guidance interventions delivered through a person-centred and recovery focussed model.

The role of the Primary Care Mental Health Nurse involves working within the team to support adults over the age of 18 years and up, offering both one to one and group evidenced based psychological therapies. The role will include carrying a clinical case load.

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

If you’re someone who is innovative, proactive, and passionate about providing high-quality holistic care, then don’t miss your opportunity to apply for this exciting role.

Main duties of the job

• Primary Care Mental Health Nurse skills and attributions:
• To deliver 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.
• To review patients presenting with mental health issues, consider a range of options regarding treatment interventions providing them with highly specialised advice concerning care when appropriate and liaising with GPs and MH teams.
• To have excellent assessment skills and be able to direct care with compassion and efficiency
• promote mental health, and liaise with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory organisations.
• To be a confident communicator and be able to work well with a range of professionals.
• The ability to manage your own case load of clients is paramount, along with the ability to triage referrals for the non-urgent mental health pathway, undertake mental health assessments, risk assessment, deliver therapeutic interventions in an accessible way for those who may struggle to engage in formal structured approaches and refer/signpost clients to other services.
• The role demands the ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of often challenging mental health problems presented by clients within a primary care mental health setting.
• Flexibility and capacity to embrace change

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for full details.

This post holder will be working with a team that consist of a Team Manager, Clinical Lead, Mental Health Nurses, Access Practitioners, Clinical Care Navigator Manager, Mental Health Practitioners (ARRS), GP’s, Consultants and Administrators.

To be an experienced mental health nurse with the ability to effectively screen, assess and work with service users with:

• complex and common mental health needs ·