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Mental Health Practitioner

Employer
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Staffordshire (GB)
Salary
£31,365 - £37,890
Closing date
18 Apr 2021

Job Details

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners to work in our ambitious Primary Care Mental Health settings across the South Staffordshire locality.

We welcome applications from staff who have one of the following professional backgrounds; nursing, occupational therapy, or social work, and who are interested in creating responsive and holistic services for people with mental health problems within a primary care setting. Applicants must be fully qualified in the appropriate profession and registered with the relevant professional body.

Do you have a genuine interest in working with people who are experiencing mental health difficulties within the primary care setting?

  • Do you work well with individuals on a 1-1 basis and in group situations?

  • Are you forward thinking, and highly organised?

  • Have you got excellent communication skills and work well within a multi-professional and multiagency setting?


    If so we would welcome an application from you

The role will involve:

  • Assessing people’s mental health needs within a primary care setting and taking responsibility for a clinical caseload.

  • The delivery of brief, short term and low intensity psychological interventions for people with common mental health disorders, in one to one and group settings.

  • Mental Health promotion involving the development of effective relationships between primary care and local communities and other services in the voluntary and statutory sector.

  • Provision of support and advice to GPs and other primary care providers.

  • Bridging the gap between primary care and other provider services to ensure fast and effective response times for those accessing services.

Significantly more investment in Voluntary, Non-statutory services is being made as part of our transformation work, to help support you in helping your patients access the services they need.

To drive this programme forward we need qualified mental health professionals who have the passion, enthusiasm and skills to be part of this exciting, new way of providing community mental healthcare.

For more information about these roles please click on the APPLY button

 

Company

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides physical and mental health, learning disability and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire. We provide a vast range of community services for adults and children and specialised services such as rheumatology and rehabilitation, which are delivered in venues ranging from health centres, GP practices, community hospitals and people's own homes.

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