PCN Lead - Mental Health Practitioner (NN3)
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
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Job summary
We are recruiting a Lead Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Practitioner to join our team. This role is open to a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.
We're an NHS Foundation Trust on an improvement journey with a new Board and a refocused sense of direction. Our ambition is to be in the top quartile of Mental Health Trusts by 2023. This is where you come in....Great ambitions require great staff!
Now is a really exciting time to join us as we launch our Primary Care Network across the whole of Norfolk and Waveney. Primary Care Network (PCN) Service for Mental Health has been developed to provide access to mental health services in Primary Care as part of this integrated health and care system, which brings care closer to home for our population.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior PCN practitioner, you will be responsible for the management of day-to-day operational and clinical issues arising from within your PCN. You will line manage the PCN practitioners as part of a multidisciplinary team providing advice, support, and treatment for members of our community experiencing problems with their mental health and wellbeing. You will collaboratively engage with the GP practices within the PCN and the PCN Practitioners to agree priorities for each local population.
We are looking to recruit Mental Health Nurses, Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers with an interest and experience in a mental health setting, to undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care.
It is an autonomous, solution focused role which noes not hold a case load. It also offers a great work life balance, as the hours are in line with the extended hours of service of GP practices.
About us
We are working jointly with our primary care colleagues and as the PCN's evolve, we will be expected to think about the wider health of their communities, taking a proactive approach to managing population health. These roles, although new have been piloted for the past year in our Early Adopter sites, so the workload is defined, manageable and appropriate to allow for patient centred care and other activities.
Benefits included with these roles are: -
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
We are working hard to maintain usual recruitment process however please be aware that we may ask you to be interviewed via MS Teams rather than in person.
NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions, but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.
CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.
Date posted
27 July 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£40,057 to £45,839 a year gross per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
246-CNN3730704-D
Job locations
Reepham, Aylsham, Coltishall and Drayton
Reepham
NR10 4QT
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Reepham, Aylsham, Coltishall and Drayton
Reepham
NR10 4QT
Employer's website
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