PCN Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Stockport

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work within a Primary Care Network service in Stockport. The introduction of this role is to support the wider transformation of community mental health services for adults and older adults that seeks to bridge the divide between primary care and secondary mental health care, and physical health services. The successful candidate will be based within one of the PCNs in the Stockport Borough, working in GP Practices to provide mental health leadership, pathway development and implement clinical processes.

Role

The practitioner will be employed by Pennine Care but will be based at a defined PCN and will be accessible and responsive to GPs and service users within the PCN. The role will mainly work with people who need specialist mental health care, widening access to mental health support across services. The service will be for people over 18 years old with a specific focus on:

• Those who are not responding to primary care mental health interventions or not ready for IAPT or their mental health needs exceed the access criteria for IAPT but do not meet the access criteria for secondary care
• People with serious or significant mental illness (SMI) who are in recovery and relatively stable in secondary care mental health services who could be cared for within primary care
• People with SMI who are eligible for an annual health check, medication review and improved access to physical health interventions.
  
  

You will

• Provide a combined consultation, advice, triage and liaison function, informed by NICE guidance within the primary care setting
• Support an access function for people, ensuring swift and seamless access to the most appropriate care pathway and onward access to mental health services
• Develop and implement mental health clinics based on the needs of the PCN
• Directly support GP’s with the management of more complex mental health presentations and linking with secondary care mental health services as appropriate
• Support people presenting in crisis, assessing clinical risk, and providing short term interventions, where possible, to manage the crisis, link into mental health support networks and promote self-management
• Provide a link role between neighbourhood primary care services and secondary care mental health services for complex cases and issues
• Identify training and education needs for PCN teams in relation to mental health practice and support the development of mental health training as required.
  
  

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
  
  

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Biju Antony Job title: Service Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07935700964

For informal discussion, please contact the appointing manager on above contact details.