# Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Tooting
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £38488.00 to £46852.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner to join our Wandsworth Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) Team.

The successful candidate will provide supervised, direct clinical work to clients in GP practices by offering brief psychologically informed interventions to support motivation and improve functioning and, if applicable, help people navigate the care system, access the right service, and where possible, work with them to overcome barriers to engagement.

The role requires working closely with GPs and other professionals in a dynamic and changing environment.

**Main duties of the job**

- Complete assessments and collaboratively develop person-centred plans.

- Offer follow-up sessions to provide brief psychologically informed interventions.

- Make onward referrals when necessary.

- Work collaboratively with clients and other professionals to problem-solve and facilitate the referral process.

- Support clients to access the right type of support.

**Flexible working**

- The postholder will be asked to deliver direct clinical work in person from GP surgeries within surgery open hours, usually Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, with Thursdays kept for supervision, team meetings, and CPD.

- There are some opportunities for remote working when not required at the GP base.

**Benefits**

- Career development opportunities

- Flexible working

- A variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment

**About us**

- We are proud to belong to 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.

- Our services are rated as 'good' by the Care Quality Commission, and we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

## Skills

### Required
- clinical experience
- research-based/reflective practice
- understanding of supervision
- evidence-based practice
- excellent written and oral communication skills
- ability to work independently

### Nice to have
- experience of supervision and/or mentoring of junior staff and students
- experience of working as a Recovery Support Worker in Mental Health
- training in support of people with mental health problems
- training in recovery approaches in mental health

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