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PCN/Lead PCN Mental Health Practitioner

Employer
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Location
West Norfolk Community
Salary
£32,306 - £45,839 gross per annum
Closing date
19 Jun 2022

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Job overview

 

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If you’re a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or registered professional working within Mental Health this could be the perfect role for you!

Our PCN Mental Health Practitioners work within a Primary Care setting and have the full support of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Forming part of the NHS’s long term Community Transformation strategy, and driven by the needs of those who use our service, as a PCN Mental Health Practitioner you’ll play an incredibly important role in the transforming community mental health services.

Within this role you’ll make a positive impact to the mental health care delivered to our service users by providing a dedicated service that makes needs are met by a specialist Mental Health Practitioner in the familiar surroundings of their GP surgery.

As a an autonomous PCN Mental Health Practitioner you will work together with fantastic colleagues to provide support, treatment, advice, education and problem solving approaches to members of our community experiencing challenges with their mental health needs.

Our Mental Health Practitioners work within our GP surgeries as well as in our community, across beautiful Norfolk and Suffolk. Forming part of a multidisciplinary team, you’ll work together to meet the needs of our service users and enable them to move seamlessly between services.

 

Main duties of the job

 

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are groups of GP practices who work together in a local geographical area.

As a Mental Health PCN practitioner, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational and clinical issues arising from within your PCN practice. You will line manage other Mental Health PCN colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary team providing advice, support, and treatment for members of our community experiencing problems with their mental health and wellbeing. You will collaboratively engage with the GP practices within the PCN and the PCN Practitioners to work with the priorities for each local population.

You’ll work at a quick pace, autonomously managing your own clinics and provide an intervention led approach, acting as an incredibly important first point of contact for people who need care and support the most.

 

 

Working for our organisation

 

We are looking to recruit Mental Health Practitioners with an interest and experience in a mental health setting, to undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care.

We’re looking for conscientious, kind and compassionate individuals who work well both independently and as part of a team. Driven by the needs of those who use our service, you will need to have good organisational skills and experience in this area as you will be providing 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 high-quality care.

We are working jointly with our primary care colleagues and as the PCN's evolve, we will consider the wider health of their communities, taking a proactive approach to managing population health.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

On a day to day basis, all PCN Practitioners will work as a member of the GP practice extended teams and be based in practices. 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. These roles have already been shown to reduce referrals into secondary care (data collected from practice pilot areas).

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Company

“I am proud to work with some absolutely fantastic patients, as well as many dedicated, caring and compassionate nursing colleagues.” – Diane Hull, Chief Nurse

Mental health nursing is an incredibly privileged and rewarding career which brings with it the chance to make a huge difference to people’s lives. 

To provide the absolute best care you need to be supported in your career, you need to be given the opportunity to be listened to and have your opinion values. 

Our Trust vales of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what our roles encompasses. 

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users. We are looking for nurses who display compassion, empathy and sensitivity in their approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

“We are expecting ambitious people to apply for our roles and will support any continued academic learning.” – Mike Seaman, Deputy Chief Nurse

We have Specialist Nurses, Nurse Consultant and Nurse Prescribers as well as Matrons and Practice Education Facilitators.  We employ Mental Health Nurses and also Registered Nurses who have physical health skills but an interest and passion for Mental Health Nursing.

Our nursing teams are compliments by a wide variety of roles such as Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers as well as Psychologists.  All play a vital role and are valued members of our teams.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?

Norfolk and Suffolk are some of the safest places to live in the UK with low crime rates, making it a community to be proud of. Housing prices are frequently cited as a reason to move here, as you get an incredible amount for your money compared with other major UK cities.

Big blue skies - The beautiful countryside and coastline is quickly and easily accessible from anywhere in Norfolk and Suffolk. Norfolk county is home to the world-famous Norfolk Broads, a National Park with more than 125 miles of man-made, lock-free waterways set in beautiful countryside, and home to picturesque towns and villages.   Suffolk is a county filled with natural beauty, bordered by 50 miles of glorious coastline and topped with breathtaking skies. It's full of charming villages and medieval towns and is the home of Constable Country.

For family members who love (or need) to travel, you’re ideally located. Trains run to and from London every 30 minutes from both Ipswich and Norwich, and there are direct rail services from Manchester, Nottingham and Cambridge.   Both counties are well connected to major road networks and Norwich has an international airport.

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