Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner inSolihull inSolihull PUBLISHED
FRI 13 DEC 2024
Key responsibilities include assessing mental health needs, delivering interventions, and promoting communication between mental health providers, local community organisations, and primary care. The team is focused on evolving primary care mental health services as part of a broader community transformation initiative, making this role pivotal in contributing to national changes in mental health care delivery.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Band 6 Primary Care mental Health Practitioner to join our the Solihull Neighbourhood Mental Health Team.
Within BSMHFT our community mental health services are well-established and as part of the BSOL community transformation programme, we are looking to increase our primary care teams with primary care practitioner roles. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of national change and developments in the delivery of community mental health care. The development of our Primary Care mental health team is an essential service which we are in the process of evolving in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
We are looking for enthusiastic and dynamic individuals who are able to work within a multi- disciplinary team, working alongside GP's and other primary care professionals who strive to achieve the best outcomes for individuals within the local community.
You will be responsible for providing mental health triage, assessment and outcomes based intervention to meet service users needs within the Primary Care Network. You will be responsible for identifying need and best course of advice, support or intervention, promoting psychosocial wellbeing by identifying and then supporting pathways for service users and carers.
You will be responsible for providing mental health triage, assessment and outcome based interventions to meet service users needs.
You will be responsible for promoting psychosocial wellbeing by identifying and then supporting pathways for service users and carers.
You will support and advise colleagues within the PCN and across local neighbourhood multi-agency teams.
Crucial to this role will be your ability to ensure robust communication across mental health providers, VCSE organisations and within primary care.
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