Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Liverpool is seeking a professional to provide mental health support within Primary Care Networks. The role involves continuous assessment and treatment for individuals with mental health difficulties, focusing on improving patient experience in the GP setting. Candidates with experience in therapeutic psychological interventions are preferred. Flexible working options are available, and collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team is essential.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Experience in providing evidence-based therapeutic psychological interventions will be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous assessment and treatment to people with mental health difficulties within GP surgeries.
• Liaise with statutory and non-statutory organizations as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Support Local Primary Care Teams, Service Users, and Carers.

Skills

Experience in evidence-based therapeutic psychological interventions

Job description

Job Overview

This position is an exciting innovative post that will provide mental health support to Primary Care Networks in Liverpool. You will primarily work in primary care but also work across the interface between Primary Care and Mental Health Services to provide advice, support and assessment to the Local Primary Care Teams, Service Users and Carers. The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs who would otherwise have seen a GP and the post holder will see new presentations of primary care mental health problems.

Location

Please note, the job description notes the post as Mid Mersey / Knowsley, however the current post is for the Liverpool area.

Responsibilities

The focus will be providing continuous assessment and treatment to people with mental health difficulties within the GP surgery's. Future ambition is this will include recovery co‑ordination and care management functions. As more posts become available with additional funding then the posts will also include the provision of treatment, education and problem‑solving approaches. The post holder will be an effective member of a multi‑disciplinary team, a main component being liaison with statutory and non‑statutory organisations.

Qualifications

Experience in providing evidence‑based therapeutic psychological interventions will be advantageous.

About MerseyCare

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

Mission and Services

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Benefits

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sally Tilsed Job title: Primary Care Mental Health Lead Email address: [e-mail]