Primary Care Mental Health Lead

An exiting opportunity has arisen to join the Primary Care Mental Health Team as a Mental Health Lead in Kirkby.

This is an exiting post improving collaboration between primary care secondary care services to support patients getting access to the right service, at the right time, in the right place.

This post will be working closely with Kirkby GP's, Kirkby PCN and Mersey Care to support those with mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

To manage a defined area of responsibility safely and effectively, ensuring the delivery of a high standard of care to the service users by supervising and monitoring a range of multi disciplinary.

To maintain close links with other professionals both internal and external to the Trust to maintain a high quality of service delivery.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.