Primary Mental Health Practitioner

**Primary Mental Health Practitioner**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Mental Health
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-430-D**Site**
- Coastal PCN
- **Town**
- Perranporth
- **Salary**
- £32,306 - £39,027 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
Primary Mental Health Clinical Team Lead B6: Coastal PCN

It’s a refreshing & exciting time to join our Adult Mental Health Services in Cornwall, as we are focused on enhancing our services with outstanding levels of quality care.

There is a unique opportunity for the right person to work along with the existing mental health team within Coastal Primary Care Network. Whilst this will be under the employment of Cornwall Foundation Trust (CFT), the post is practice based and supervised by the PCN’s Mental Health practice based Practitioner.

Coastal PCN has a population of over 29,000 patients in mid Cornwall, incorporating 4 practices in close proximity. The population is diverse, with varying levels of socioeconomic status, young families and elderly patients all of whom make providing care very interesting.

The individual surgeries regularly appear in the Top Ten Practices in the county based on the latest findings from the ‘GP Patient Survey’

The post holder will be based and embedded within a Primary Care Network (PCN) working with GPs, practice nurses and other Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) workers e.g., Mental health practitioner, social prescribers, health and wellbeing coaches, care co-ordinators. They will work with primary care GPs to manage the mental health needs of their population at the point of contact.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will be based and embedded within a Primary Care Network (PCN) working with GPs, practice nurses and other Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) workers e.g., social prescribers, health and wellbeing coaches, care co-ordinators, as part of the primary care Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).

They will work with primary care GPs to manage the mental health needs of their population at the point of contact. This includes those with lower-level support requirements that can be met within primary care, working with the Primary Care.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit