Job summary
Swaffham & Downham PCN - Band 6 MHP
If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or registered professional working within Mental Health this could be the perfect role for you!
Our PCN Mental Health Practitioners work within a Primary Care setting and have the full support of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Forming part of the NHS's long term Community Transformation strategy, and driven by the needs of those who use our service, as a PCN Mental Health Practitioner you'll play an incredibly important role in the transforming community mental health services.
Within this role you'll make a positive impact to the mental health care delivered to our service users by providing a dedicated service that makes needs are met by a specialist Mental Health Practitioner in the familiar surroundings of their GP surgery.
As a an autonomous PCN Mental Health Practitioner you will work together with fantastic colleagues to provide support, treatment, advice, education and problem solving approaches to members of our community experiencing challenges with their mental health needs.
Our Mental Health Practitioners work within our GP surgeries as well as in our community, across beautiful Norfolk and Suffolk. Forming part of a multidisciplinary team, you'll work together to meet the needs of our service users and enable them to move seamlessly between services.
Main duties of the job
Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are groups of GP practices who work together in a local geographical area.
As a Mental Health PCN practitioner, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational and clinical issues arising from within your PCN practice. You will line manage other Mental Health PCN colleagues 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 work with the priorities for each local population.
You'll work at a quick pace, autonomously managing your own clinics and provide an intervention led approach, acting as an incredibly important first point of contact for people who need care and support the most.
About us
We are looking to recruit Mental Health Practitioners with an interest and experience in a mental health setting, to undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care.
We're looking for conscientious, kind and compassionate individuals who work well both independently and as part of a team. Driven by the needs of those who use our service,you will need to have good organisational skills and experience in this area as you will be providing 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 high-quality care.
We are working jointly with our primary care colleagues and as the PCN's evolve, we will consider the wider health of their communities, taking a proactive approach to managing population health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a day to day basis, all PCN Practitioners will work as a member of the GP practice extended teams and be based in practices. This role will also support secondary mental health services by acting as the interface from primary care to manage referrals into the correct services at the correct times. These roles have already been shown to reduce referrals into secondary care (data collected from practice pilot areas).
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Job description
Job responsibilities
On a day to day basis, all PCN Practitioners will work as a member of the GP practice extended teams and be based in practices. This role will also support secondary mental health services by acting as the interface from primary care to manage referrals into the correct services at the correct times. These roles have already been shown to reduce referrals into secondary care (data collected from practice pilot areas).
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT Dip OT, Dip SW, RN, Clinical Psychology Grade A, or equivalent.
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level.
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice Post basic teaching qualification
Desirable
- Further qualification in mental health work. ILM certificate in management or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
- Experience in the delivery of short term, focused evidence-based interventions.
- Experience of working with mental health service users in a statuary or voluntary capacity.
- Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Evidence of leading service development within a mental health care setting.
- Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management.
Desirable
- Understanding of mental health issues in a primary care setting
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills Competent assessment skills
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills Care planning skills.
- Competent and effective treatment skills. Able to effectively prioritise own workload.
- Competent ICT skills. Satisfactory verbal and written language skills.
- Safeguarding training.
Desirable
- Prevention and Management of Suicide training
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Build on / develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriate
- Build on / develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines
Desirable
- Knowledge of research methods and audit relevant to the job.
- Interest in developing knowledge base and skills relating to the provision of high quality primary mental health care.
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT Dip OT, Dip SW, RN, Clinical Psychology Grade A, or equivalent.
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level.
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice Post basic teaching qualification
Desirable
- Further qualification in mental health work. ILM certificate in management or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
- Experience in the delivery of short term, focused evidence-based interventions.
- Experience of working with mental health service users in a statuary or voluntary capacity.
- Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Evidence of leading service development within a mental health care setting.
- Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management.
Desirable
- Understanding of mental health issues in a primary care setting
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills Competent assessment skills
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills Care planning skills.
- Competent and effective treatment skills. Able to effectively prioritise own workload.
- Competent ICT skills. Satisfactory verbal and written language skills.
- Safeguarding training.
Desirable
- Prevention and Management of Suicide training
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Build on / develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriate
- Build on / develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines
Desirable
- Knowledge of research methods and audit relevant to the job.
- Interest in developing knowledge base and skills relating to the provision of high quality primary mental health care.
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
