Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is excited to advertise a Senior Mental Health Practitioner role across the Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Oldham. The introduction of these roles supports the wider transformation of community mental health services for adults and older adults, which seeks to bridge the gap between primary and secondary mental health services, and physical health services.

The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will be employed by Pennine Care but based within the Primary Care Networks, within GP surgeries and will be accessible and responsive to GPs and patients within the Primary Care Network. The Senior Mental Health Practitioner role promotes and provides early assessment, treatment and improved access, providing evidence-based interventions for people with mental health needs. The role will help people to focus on achievable goals, access local community resources and promote self-management.

• Those with mental health needs that exceed the access criteria for Talking Therapies and do not meet the access criteria for secondary care
• People with serious or significant mental illness (SMI) who are in recovery and relatively stable in secondary care mental health services who could be cared for within primary care
• People with SMI who are eligible for an annual health check and medication review and improved access to physical health interventions

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Be a key player within the Living Well MDT.

• Provide mental health triage, assessment, formulation and clinical interventions based on NICE guidance within the locality
• Support an access function for people, ensuring swift and seamless access to the most appropriate care pathway and onward access to mental health services
• Develop and implement mental health clinics based on the needs of the PCN.
• Directly support GP's with the management of more complex mental health presentations and linking with secondary care mental health services
• Support people presenting in crisis, assessing clinical risk and providing short term interventions, where possible, to manage the crisis, link in to mental health support networks and promote self-management
• Provide a link role between neighbourhood primary care services and secondary care mental health services for complex cases and issues
• Identify training and education needs for PCN & neighbourhood teams in relation to mental health practice and support the development of mental health training as required

About us

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.

Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance

Access to Continued Professional Development

Involvement in improvement and research activities

Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service

Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our#PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse - Mental Health (RMN), Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, with current registration

Desirable

• Non-medical Prescribing

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post registration experience of working with people with serious mental illness
• Proven experience of working with clients with complex needs
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary working in mental health care with complex cases
• Experience of working to objectives and meeting deadlines, within a performance management framework
• Experience of providing day to day clinical leadership and operational management
• Experience of supervising junior staff
• Experience of managing budgets or resources

Desirable

• Experience of working in community settings

Knowledge

Essential

• Working knowledge of current mental health legislation and guidance
• Safeguarding thresholds and procedures
• Understand the nature of working in a primary care setting
• Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of common mental health problems
• Knowledge of mental health /risk management processes
• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues
• Comprehensive understanding of deliberate self-harm and appropriate management strategies
• Display a good understanding of clinical governance and quality improvement
• Be competent in developing and delivering training packages relating to mental health
• Overview and knowledge of the range of interventions and services that meet the needs of all service users referred to the service
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review interventions

Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Care NHS FT

Address

Oldham PCNs

Various GP surgeries across Oldham

Oldham

OL1 2JH

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

311-O569-24-A