Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (SPCMHP)

Job overview

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Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (SPCMHP)

Band 6 - £39,959 - £48,117per annum -

Full Time - 37.5 hours per week - Fixed Term Contract 12 months

Base - Mid Essex -   Braintree Maldon locality

we are looking for a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (PCMHP) to join the Adult Community Mental Health Services, Mid Essex.  EPUT has This is an exciting role for a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner to support the way forward in the delivery of Community Mental Health Services.

This post will be based within General Practice, working alongside existing Primary Care teams to triage, assess, and follow up patients registered with local GP practices within the Braintree area. This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months within the Primary Care Mental Health Team.

If you are  proactive in your approach to collaborative working and committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care. The team offers a range of interventions, from active mental health monitoring to early help interventions, ensuring timely and appropriate support for service users.

As a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner, you will be a highly skilled and motivated Mental Health Nurse. As a highly competent and proficient practitioner, you will work autonomously and confidently in your ability to triage and assess individuals presenting with common mental health disorders.

Main duties of the job

Provide a seamless service to support patients’ recovery and wellbeing plans within the community.

• Work collaboratively with GPs, Primary Care teams, and Consultant Psychiatrists to ensure patients are supported within the most appropriate clinical practice environment from a multidisciplinary perspective.
• Triage and assess patients effectively. You will maintain a clear focus on prevention, early detection, and intervention, while promoting self-management through empowerment and partnership working with service users.
• Deliver effective, safe, and responsive services that support the key principles of clinical and practice governance.
• As the Primary Care model continues to develop, the post holder will support the team’s ongoing commitment to continuous service improvement, while safeguarding and maintaining high standards of care.
• Undertake and provide detailed physical health investigations, including BMI monitoring, blood pressure checks.
• Act as a signpost for both internal and external services appropriate to the needs of service users, ensuring timely access to relevant support and interventions where required.
• Contribute to the development of integrated care pathways, promoting collaborative working across services to enhance continuity of care and improve outcomes for service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide a seamless service to support patients’ recovery and wellbeing plans within the community.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, Primary Care teams, and Consultant Psychiatrists to ensure patients are supported within the most appropriate clinical practice environment from a multidisciplinary perspective.
• Ensure safe clinical practice is maintained at all times, adhering to Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards and working in line with the NHS Constitution.
• Triage patients effectively and facilitate access to the most appropriate support for their individual needs, ensuring patients are not unnecessarily passed between services.
• Deliver effective, safe, and responsive services that support the key principles of clinical and practice governance.

As the Primary Care model continues to develop, the post holder will support the team’s ongoing commitment to continuous service improvement, while safeguarding and maintaining high standards of care by creating an environment where excellence can flourish.

• Undertake and provide detailed physical health investigations, including BMI monitoring, blood pressure checks, ECG's and requesting blood tests where clinically appropriate.
• Be responsible for the completion of full and comprehensive assessments and, where appropriate, provide person-centred care planning for service users requiring physical health-related aspects of care, with the support of the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure assessments and care plans reflect individual needs, promote recovery, and support the delivery of holistic, high-quality care.

Driving is essential due to the demographic area  where  there is can be  limited public transport .

The post holder will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Registered Mental Health (RMN)
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)
• Experience of working within a Mental Health setting
• Good oral communication skills based on fluency on the English Language
• Ability to manage difficult situations sensitively by listening, showing tolerance and remaining objective