Primary Care Network

This is an exciting opportunity for two new roles as part of the ARRS (additional roles reimbursement scheme) initiative, working directly within distinct Primary Care Networks.

The post holder will provide timely specialist mental health assessment, risk assessment, and brief intervention to prevent deterioration in mental health preventing the need for secondary mental health services. The post holder will also provide decision support for primary care colleagues to ensure that service users with complex mental health needs access the correct service and intervention to meet their needs.

The introduction of these roles which are specifically aligned to PCN’s will contribute to the ambition and work that has started as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation. This is a national improvement program designed to improve the experience and timely access to mental health services for patients in their local communities.

One role will support the Leeds Student Medical Practice PCN by providing timely mental health advice and guidance to GPs and other practice colleagues. The post-holder will deliver timely brief interventions for patients in this practice, often requiring skills and expertise around emotional dysregulation, self-harm, eating disorders and other complex mental health presentations.

The other role involves providing mental health support and expertise to a small number of surgeries within a socially deprived area of Leeds with diverse needs. This PCN has high numbers of patients with serious mental illness (SMI) and language interpretation needs. The post-holder will need to work flexibly to support GPs and PCN colleagues to meet the often-complex mental health needs within this population; therefore, a good understanding of SMI, health inequalities and diversity will be advantageous.

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.
We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.
We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.
As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
- Recognised professional qualification RMN, RN (Mental Health), OT, Social Worker
- Will maintain current specific professional and legal standards of practice in accordance with professional codes of conduct.
- Experience of working in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies.
- Experience in undertaking specialist mental health and risk assessment, will demonstrate that these skills are maintained and shares those skills with other team members.
- Will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the national and local mental health and social care agenda and be able contribute to service development initiatives.
- Will be skilled in all aspects of clinical communication including the maintenance of accurate records