# Frailty Primary Mental Health Practitioner

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Sutton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Proactive Care Mental Health Practitioner to join our Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) on a 6-month secondment.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape and deliver an innovative neighbourhood-based model of care, bringing specialist mental health expertise directly into the homes of people who are unable to access traditional clinic-based services.

Working as a core member of the Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team, you will provide high-quality mental health assessment, intervention, risk management and care coordination for adults living with frailty, multimorbidity, cognitive impairment and complex psychosocial needs.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health assessments within patients' homes, care homes and community settings.

- Support individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, complex adjustment difficulties, dementia-related distress, cognitive impairment and other mental health challenges associated with frailty.

- Provide evidence-based interventions, crisis prevention strategies and relapse prevention planning.

- Work collaboratively with GPs, community nursing teams, social care professionals, pharmacists, voluntary sector organisations and specialist mental health services.

- Facilitate access to Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Memory Services, Liaison Psychiatry, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams, and Older Adult Mental Health Services.

- Provide consultation, education and clinical leadership to the wider multidisciplinary team.

- Contribute to service development and the continued evolution of neighbourhood-based mental health care.

**About us**

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

**Benefits**

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

## Skills

### Required
- RMN registration
- mental health experience
- community or home-based practice
- multidisciplinary working
- biopsychosocial mental health assessments
- risk management
- care planning

### Nice to have
- non-medical prescribing qualification
- advanced clinical practice
- postgraduate qualification in mental health
- older adults
- frailty
- dementia
- psychological practice

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