Peripatetic Advanced First Contact Mental Health Practitioner

There are 15 practitioners already working across the 8 primary care networks within York. These roles rely on integration with local social prescribing, charities and secondary care pathways.

We are seeking a reliable, highly autonomous Band 7 Advanced First Contact Mental Health Practitioner to join our dynamic workforce. This unique, peripatetic role is specifically designed to provide sickness, absence and surge capacity cover across 8 Primary Care Networks. You will be required to integrate into different teams to ensure continuity of high-quality patient care. This position is ideal for practitioner who thrives on variety, processes strong cross functional skills and can hit the ground running in any clinical environment.

The key responsibilities for the successful post holder will be to provide high quality assessments, interventions and care management across diverse settings and locations, to be able to adapt quickly to localised site workflows, multi-disciplinary team dynamics and varying patient demographics. To ensure seamless transitions of care during periods of staff absence, high demand or service expansion.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.