Primary Care Network Practitioner - Birchwood & Cromer

Job summary

Primary Care Network Practitioner (PCN) - Birchwood & Cromer

We are recruiting a 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 PCN practitioner, you will work across the interface between Primary Care and Secondary Mental Health Services as part of a multidisciplinary team providing advice, support, and treatment for members of our community experiencing problems with their mental health and wellbeing.

We are looking to recruit Mental Health Nurses, Registered Nurses Occupational Therapists and Social Workers with an interest or preferably experience in a mental health setting, to undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care.

You will need to have good organizational skills as you will be managing a caseload and the provision of services to people with mental health care needs as well as offering support and advice to other health care professionals. You will be an autonomous practitioner, making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high-quality care.

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 in our Early Adopter sites for the past year 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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Birchwood & Cromer

Birchwood & Cromer

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Birchwood & Cromer

Birchwood & Cromer

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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