Primary Mental Health Practitioner

An Exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Primary Mental Health Team in North Cornwall, under the employment of Cornwall Foundation Trust. The North Cornwall PCN practises include Port Isaac Surgery, Wadebridge and Camel Estuary Medical Practise and Bottreaux Surgery. Our Surgeries are friendly supportive and already have a broad range of clinical staff focused on delivering a high standard of patient care.

**The aims of this role will be to**:
- Deliver improved access to a broader range of care options by offering timely and expert assessment.
- Aim to include evidence informed approaches that are known to impact on both mental and physical health.
- Reduce referrals to specialist services to enable earlier interventions that will improve patient experience and outcomes.

In a supportive partnership the PCN & CFT want to achieve care that is joined up, patient centred, trauma informed, place based (locality hub) where practitioners and communities collaborate optimising community assets. By reducing repeated assessments and addressing the needs of those with complex emotional needs earlier and locally, we can reduce distress and work with those with early adversity to have more meaningful and active lives, focusing on what matters to the person. This then enables secondary care to offer expert treatment to those with severe mental illness.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
Communication and Working Relationships
- Member of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Develop and improve working relationships with GP’s, other professionals and outside agencies working collaboratively to ensure effective referral, assessment, treatment, and discharge.
- Promote and sustain good interpersonal relationships with residents, carer/families, members of the multi-disciplinary/primary healthcare team, other professionals, voluntary agencies, independent sector, and the public.
- To provide good mental health awareness information to the community.

Management and Personal Development
- To participate in clinical supervision and individual appraisal in accordance with Trust Policy, ensuring high levels of skills and competence.
- To keep professionally updated with ongoing developments in mental health through an evidence-based approach to delivering high quality mental health services by evaluating, updating, initiating and /or participating in training, audit, and research.
- To ensure receipt of supervision as per Trust Policy.
- Offer line management supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff as required.

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 this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.