# Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (SPCMHP) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-mental-health-practitioner-spcmhp/be76d315-6cb7-438c-bd1a-82f058270192 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/primary-care-mental-health-practitioner-spcmhp/be76d315-6cb7-438c-bd1a-82f058270192.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Wickford - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-02T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T12:11:01.535Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Mid_Essex_Primary_care_MH_Team/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8028028 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8028028?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ### Previous applicants need not apply ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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: ## Person Specification ### Skills/Experience **Essential** - Experience of working within a Mental Health setting - Literate in IT/Computer Skills - Good oral communication skills based on fluency on the English Language - Ability to inspire confidence in the MDT, service users, carers and junior staff. **Desirable** - use of System one ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Ability to manage difficult situations sensitively by listening, showing tolerance and remaining objective. - Ability to identify barriers to change and develop strategies to overcome them - Self -motivated with the ability to use supervision effectively and be resourceful in a clinical setting - Ability to work under pressure - Ability to contain the emotional impact of working with people with Mental Health problems - Shares the Trust’s Beliefs and models this in their attitude and behaviour: Able to ensure that the organisational values of open, compassionate and empowering are demonstrated by self and others every day - Ability to work within a Multi -discipliary team ### Additional Requirements **Essential** - Fitness Analysis as appropriate - Current driving licence - Ability to travel across sites efficiently and across Trust boundaries to attend meetings, etc. **Desirable** - Be flexible in the hours that you work which are necessary to meet the changing needs of the service where appropriate ### Education/Qualifications Knowledge **Essential** - Registered Mental Health (RMN) - Risk Management training and/or Suicide Prevention training - Mentorship Preparation - Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) - Meet the requirements for revalidation as set out by the NMC - High standard of education - Good written and spoken English **Desirable** - Venepuncture trained - Level 2 accredited Stop Smoking advisor - Trained to deliver Physical Health screening ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990) - [job description (pdf, 640.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10315212) - [person specification (pdf, 512.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10315213) - [candidate privacy policy (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1853) - [right to work information (pdf, 293.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2355) - [values of the nhs pension (pdf, 151.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2659) - [why join the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 91.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1849) - [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.