About the Role
Come join us! We are building an ambitious Primary Care-based Mental Health & Well-being Team.
This opportunity is for a Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (ARRS) who is a Registered Professional to work within Nuneaton and Bedworth Primary Care Network.
You will be employed by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust but embedded within a group of GP practices focusing on supporting local patients across North Warwickshire.
These roles are directly patient‑facing, providing a meaningful impact on improving the access, experience and outcomes for service users on a daily basis.
Local teams will work in partnership with higher acuity mental health services (delivered in this area by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust), offering care at the point of need that suits individual patient needs. Each team works together with support from its practices to deliver the best care possible.
If you are passionate about making a difference and can use your expertise to improve mental health and wellbeing, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a liaison worker between Secondary Care Mental Health Provider and Primary Care.
- Support clinical decisions and discussions for patients who are not known to SCMH services or who are open to community mental health services, and provide GPs with advice.
- Review patients in primary care and assess where their needs can be best met, supporting discussions of patients discharged or not engaged with SCMH services.
- Enhance patient journeys and create better joint working across primary care and adult secondary care mental health systems, making it easier for patients to obtain help.
- Offer brief interventions to people with mental health needs who do not need a referral into SCMH services, including facilitating short‑term case management and providing professional advice, joint support and information.
- Work closely with social prescribers and other professionals within the PCN multidisciplinary team to support patients in accessing the right services at the right time.
- Develop and maintain collaborative links with the third sector to provide clinical advice and support to mental health social prescribers or equivalents within primary care.
- Provide one day per week with each GP surgery in the PCN (locally agreed) and attend PCN Multidisciplinary Team Meetings.
- Support the smooth transition between primary and secondary care services when required and improve access to mental health services for users and carers at the first point of contact.
- Receive and screen referrals, complete a mental health assessment, and conduct comprehensive risk and evidence‑based decisions.
- Recognise and describe effectively symptoms of mental illness and distress, escalating concerns promptly and signposting to appropriate services; provide advice and feedback to referrers.
- Record assessments and risk plans for each person on CWPT‑specified systems.
- Link with locality community mental health duty teams to discuss any open referrals or for advice.
- Support or assist patients presenting in crisis in conjunction with the GP referral process to the Mental Health Access Hub.
- Communicate and provide case studies and other required information to internal (CWPT/GP) and external stakeholders.
- Make telephone contact with patients within five working days as appropriate.
- Agree with the patient on brief interventions to be offered (maximum 4 weeks) or other support such as referral to social prescribers, IAPT or SCMH as appropriate.
- Act as an effective member of the PCN MDT, responsible for developing and implementing a person‑centred approach to care: screening and decision‑making for referrals, identifying the needs of service users and their carers.
- Facilitate onward referral to the voluntary sector via social prescribers.
- Facilitate short‑term case management within primary care, offering professional advice, joint support and information.
- Use specialist assessment skills to undertake high‑quality Brief Solution Focused work when appropriate and facilitate referral for treatment within SCMH if required.
- Determine priority, need and plan service user intervention, including risk assessment and support onward referral to the appropriate service.
- Meet the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the individual and their family, using research‑based knowledge and skills to maintain the individual’s identity.
- Recognise the needs of families/carers, ensuring their involvement in support where appropriate while offering advice and education.
- Apply specialist clinical knowledge and experience to educate service users, helping them develop a greater understanding of their condition, life skills and coping strategies in a person‑centred way.
- Discuss present performance and future needs with the PCN project development team.
- Attend meetings with the PCN project development team as delegated and requested, providing feedback as appropriate.
- Provide clinical supervision of social prescribers based with the PCN.
- Prepare data for activity reports as required.
- Participate in the implementation of policy to develop the role with the PCN project group and contribute to the development of the role and service through awareness and engagement with the PCN project team.
- Facilitate improved patient and family/carer experience, improved liaison and co‑working with partners, and timely interventions.
- Support the reduction in carer crisis, hospital admissions and inequality.
- Support the prevention of de/escalation to specialist/acute services and reduce inappropriate referrals to Community Mental Health Teams.
Benefits
- Full range physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
- Good CQC rating (“Good”).
- Flexible working and a wide range of support services and benefits to promote staff wellbeing and a good work‑life balance.
- Dedicated People Hub providing in‑house counselling, emotional support through Staff in Mind, an Employee Assistance Programme with a 24/7 helpline, and a salary‑sacrifice scheme.
We exist to make a positive difference to the health and wellbeing of people and communities who need our services. This is our core purpose and the reason we come to work every day. We care for you as much as you care for others.
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have – please get in touch!
This advert closes on Thursday 2 Apr 2026.
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