Primary Care Mental Health Clinical Lead/ Manager inKnowsley inKnowsley PUBLISHED 12 SEP 2024

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who will, be experienced within primary care mental health services, keen to support the management and development of a primary care mental health service and support the transformation of community mental health agenda.

This is a crucial leadership role which involves working within GP practices and local primary care networks to deliver a high quality service.

To be successful you will need the ability to develop and maintain strong and supportive relationships with our primary care stakeholders and also within our own merseycare services to support the transformation work ongoing. You will have vast clinical experience and the ability to support clinicians within their Primary care mental health role.

You would be joining an established and experienced team, whose roles are evolving, you will provide clinical leadership which is compassionate and supportive.

You will be well organised, with strong communication skills.

You will provide management to a primary care mental health team who hold clinics within Primary care networks, developing and delivering strong communications to support and maintain our relationships with our key stakeholders.

You will ensure the team are managed and supported effectively and compassionately and in line with trust policies.

You will support the wider transformation within the trust.

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.

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 requests will be considered for all roles.


For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cheryl Farrell Job title: Operational manager Email address:

Stephen Thomas

Clinical team