Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Registered Mental Health Nurse looking for something a bit different?

Are you an excellent relationship builder who has the best patient outcomes at the centre of everything that you do? If so then we would love to talk to you!!

Across Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW) we have launched our plan to transform experiences in adult mental health in a programme called 'No Wrong Door'. This is a new and innovative service led by the local NHS, councils, Public Health, GPs, voluntary and community partners and people with lived experience of mental illness.

Through our research adults with a serious mental illness have told us first contact is the most important point in successfully starting their recovery. When people with a serious mental illness are at their most anxious, they face too many choices with little support.

To tackle this, we are going to:

1.Ensure that at the start of a person's recovery, wherever and however a person accesses care they are met with compassion, understanding, and supported with both their physical and mental wellbeing.

2.Build teams around communities that are close to people's homes, by working with our partners including the voluntary sector, making sure people's recovery is close to their personal support networks.

3.Provide people who are working across these physical and mental health services with the right support and training, making sure we have creative career options across the area.

Main duties of the job

Southern Health NHS Trust will be working with Primary Care Networks, known as PCNs, to develop teams of health and care professionals including wellbeing practitioners, nurses, experts in psychology and psychiatry, social workers, and education and employment support workers.

Southern Health NHS Trust's Portsmouth and South East Division and both the Swan and East Hampshire PCN's are now in position to offer these exciting opportunities for innovative, flexible, professionals who are able to network and be part of the building blocks for the transformation of frontline mental health services.

Strawberry Health PCN

This PCN consists of two surgeries, Vine Medical Group and Homewell Practice. Based in the Havant and Waterlooville area. We are an innovative and agile organisation committed to team working through a diverse workforce. We are passionate about delivering quality care to our patients but also ensuring our staff are fully supported. We have strong clinical leadership and board, value work life balance and fully support training and development needs. A friendly established team awaits you!

Employed by Southern Health NHS Trust and funded jointly these roles will be based within PCNs to develop relationships between organisations and influence the transformation to provide the right services for our population by the right people at the right time.

If you would like to know more then please contact. Liz Gremont: 023 82311880 : liz.gremont@southernhealth.nhs.uk.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Date posted

25 November 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

348-PSE-C-1074A

Job locations

Forest End Surgery

Forest End

Waterlooville

Hampshire

PO7 7AH

Havant Health Centre

Civic Centre Road

Havant

Hampshire

PO9 2AZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is a new role working collaboratively across primary and secondary care, the role will therefore be subject to change as it develops.

To work closely with secondary mental health and primary care and ensure good communication between services.

To champion a culture based on principles of recovery, choice and personalised care,

providing a role model to those who the practitioner works with.

The post holder will also provide some direct clinical care within the PCN. It will provide support to staff within the Primary Care Network and be engaged within the local community mental health team.

*To work with Primary Care stakeholders in South East area to support and help deliver the transformation work around "No wrong door".

*To be able to deliver therapeutic interventions to service users whose immediate needs may need help in a primary care setting.

*To support the planning and coordination of service users' care in primary care, including those on the SMI list liaising with teams and agencies as required. To work on signposting to appropriate agencies for ongoing support.

*To discuss primary care referrals that require referral to secondary mental health care prior to making a referral

*To work closely with the secondary care mental health practitioner to provide a link between primary care services and secondary care for the Mental Health Team.