Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
ARRS Mental Health Practitioner
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ARRS Mental Health Practitioner – Cheltenham Peripheral PCN (covering Sixways Clinic GL52 6HS and Cleevelands Medical Centre GL52 7YU)
This is an exciting opportunity to improve the experience for individuals with mental health needs through offering early assessment and access to treatment and support to promote mental health and well-being within primary care.
Embedded within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), our ARRS Practitioners are outward facing linking seamlessly with the Gloucestershire Health and Care (GHC) NHS Foundation Trust, where we will provide support with supervision and training opportunities. The PCNs provide a welcoming environment for SMHPs making them feel part of their teams team and there is Countywide support from SMHP colleagues based in other practices.
The ARRS Practitioner will be an integrated member of the GP practice team and will take the lead in ensuring best practice is delivered across your allocated GP surgeries. The role requires working autonomously in providing high volume assessment, diagnosis, and treatment appointments, advice and support for GPs in caring for other patients with mental health issues, improve links with and navigation to community providers. The MH Practitioner will work within a number of GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network.
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Enthusiasm, an ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues across service areas to bring about change and the desire to develop and improve services will be fundamental to these roles. Professional development, governance support, training and supervision will be provided by GHC Trust working collaboratively with colleagues in Primary Care.
For more information please contact Hannah Rigby (Operational Lead)
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
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- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Hannah Rigby
- Job title: ARRS Primary Care MH Operational Lead
- Email address: hannah.rigby@ghc.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0300 421 3388
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