Primary Care Network Lead Mental Health Practitioner

As part of our community mental health transformation programme, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) has been working in partnership with our Primary Care Networks to expand the primary care mental health practitioner roles. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the primary care team within the Healthier West Wirral Primary Care Network (PCN).

We are working together to provide joined up services to give patients access to support to live happier, healthier lives. We are looking to recruit a new Primary Care Network Mental Health Practitioner to join our PCN team. Our multi-disciplinary team already includes GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Healthcare Support Workers, Phlebotomists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribers and Physiotherapists.

Working in partnership, the role will be directly employed and supported by CWP, but fully embedded within the PCN multi-disciplinary team to develop new ways of working and providing that essential bridge between the PCN and CWP.

On a day-to-day basis, PCN Practitioners will work as a member of GP practice extended teams and be based in practices, and will provide local assessment, triage, risk assessment, risk management, signposting, onward referral, and evidence-based interventions for patients presenting with mental health problems.

This role will also support secondary mental health services by acting as the interface from primary care to manage referrals into the correct services at the correct times.

The role will operate within the principles of recovery and be responsible for the case management of agreed individuals with mental health conditions in conjunction with the Primary Care Team, liaising with GP’s and other allied healthcare professionals to manage patients with a wide range of presenting mental health conditions.

You will need to have good organisational skills as you will be managing a caseload and the provision of services to people with mental health care needs as well as offering support and advice to other health care professionals. You will be an autonomous practitioner, making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high-quality care.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running. CWP also scored the highest in the north west (among mental health, learning disability and community Trusts) for staff “recommending CWP as a place to work” in the NHS Staff Survey 2020.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool - and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification)andvalues.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If your disability meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please also inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

All new clinical support staff will be required to have completed or working towards the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 6 months of start date).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

CWP encourages and supports all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19.

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