Mental Health Practitioner - Primary Care Team, West Staffordshire

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Mental Health Practitioner - Primary Care Team, West Staffordshire

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Job location: Cannock, Staffordshire. This is a role within our Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner Team as a Mental Health Practitioner based in Cannock, Staffordshire.

If you hold a professional registration in nursing, occupational therapy, or social work, and are interested in creating a responsive and holistic mental health service within a primary care setting this may be the role for you.

You will work with one or more primary care networks in the South Staffordshire area to provide assessment and brief intervention treatment for individuals presenting with mental health needs and will carry out mental health assessments following agreed practice guidelines as part of a Primary Care Network Team.

You must be fully qualified in the appropriate profession and registered with the relevant professional body. You must be able to travel independently across a large geographical area.

Main duties of the job

• Assessing people’s mental health needs within a primary care setting.
• The delivery of brief, short term, and low intensity psychological interventions for people with common mental health disorders.
• Mental Health promotion involving the development of effective relationships between primary care and local communities and other services in the voluntary and statutory sector.
• Provision of support and advice to GPs and other primary care providers.
• Bridging the gap between primary care and other provider services to ensure fast and effective response times for those accessing services.
• Demonstrate an attitude which respects the core values of the organisation and the principles of Recovery.

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Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care