Mental Health Practitioner

1 week ago


Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job Overview

Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

This role is an exciting opportunity for a registered mental health professional to work in a dynamic way across primary and secondary care to bring together mental health pathways and support the understanding of mental health within primary care.

The role will provide holistic assessment of service users linking people into the community and VSCE resources as well as providing seamless transition into secondary care if it is needed.

The role will also form part of multidisciplinary meetings held by GP Practices within primary care.

Main Responsibilities

  • To actively promote better understanding and knowledge of mental health and wellbeing within primary care to enable the MDT to provide integrated and holistic offers of support.
  • To take a lead on providing specialist assessment of service users with mental health problems within the primary care setting.
  • To provide effective signposting based on a holistic assessment of an individual's needs making use of a range of resources and services to include VCSE and community based organisations.
  • To provide evidence based, time limited interventions where appropriate and within scope of professional practice and experience.
  • To work collaboratively with secondary mental health services to support effective transitions of service users from secondary mental health services to primary care.
  • To work collaboratively with service users and their families to:
    a. support shared decision-making around their care and support working on strengths and assets;
    b. promote recovery and self care.

Working for Our Organisation

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs.
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
increase mileage rates for > 3500.
a wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
a range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.



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