Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
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Job Opportunity: Staff Member for Warrington GP Surgeries
We have an exciting opportunity for a staff member to work in the Warrington area, covering several different GP surgeries within the working hours.
Core Working Hours
- 9am-5pm
About the Role
This position is for an experienced registered mental health nurse to work in an exciting, innovative post that supports patients to access mental health support via Primary Care. It is vital that candidates have community experience and understand the role.
This job is only suitable for a NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Key Responsibilities
- The successful applicant will work in the Primary Care setting, offering specialist mental health assessment to those patients who have moderate to severe mental health conditions.
- This role allows the practitioner to work across the interface between Primary Care setting and Secondary Care Mental Health Services to provide advice, support, and assessment to patients.
- This will allow timelier access to services and ensure that the patient gets the right treatment at the right time and will offer the practitioner the environment to work in an autonomous way.
- The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs to ensure they can transition between services with the best support in place.
- The post holder will be an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team, effectively triaging and signposting patients into the right team or service to support them in their needs.
- The post holder will be supported in their role by a variety of other professionals. This includes Pharmacists, GP’s, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Leads, Non Medical Prescribers, and Psychologists – as well as the management team.
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About Mersey Care
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.
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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.
Flexible Working
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Sophie Kenny
- Job title: Operational Manager
- Email address: sophie.kenny2@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01925 666647
We would encourage informal visits prior to interview, to gain an understanding of this new and innovative role.
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