Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners - PCN5 Primary Care Network (PCN)
This role is an exciting opportunity for a registered band 6 mental health professional (Nurse, Social Worker or OT) to work across primary and secondary care to integrate mental health pathways and support understanding of mental health within primary care. The role will provide holistic assessment of service users, link people into the community and VCSE resources, and support seamless transition into secondary care if needed. The role will also form part of multidisciplinary meetings held by GP Practices within primary care.

The primary care mental health service is expanding and is a key component of our community mental health transformation. It is envisaged that the role will closely link to the community transformation of mental health and the core team being established. The role will link to a specific primary care network and work closely with practices aligned to that network. The successful candidate will be based in GP sites within the PCN during working hours.

Closing date: 12th May 2026
Shortlisting date: 13th May 2026
Interview date: 24th May 2026

Responsibilities

To actively promote better understanding and knowledge of mental health and wellbeing within primary care to enable the MDT to provide integrated and holistic offers of support.

To take a lead on providing specialist assessment of service users with mental health problems within the primary care setting.

To provide effective signposting based on a holistic assessment of an individual’s needs, making use of a range of resources and services including VCSE and community-based organisations.

To provide evidence-based, time-limited interventions where appropriate and within the scope of professional practice and experience.

When required, to facilitate swift and seamless transition into other mental health services such as CORE VCS, talking therapies, CMHT, etc.

To work collaboratively with secondary mental health services to support effective transitions of service users from secondary mental health services to primary care.

To work collaboratively with service users and their families to:

• Support shared decision-making around their care and support, focusing on strengths and assets.
• Promote recovery and self-care.

To inform and influence the ongoing development of new and innovative models of support within primary care and secondary mental health service.

Requirements

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a range of benefits including:

• Increased mileage rates for > 4500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more

We are proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nykhola Harris-Scott, Job title: Team Leader, Email: nykhola.harris-scott@bdct.nhs.uk, Telephone: 07780399413

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