Primary Care Network Senior Mental Health Practitioner

SLAM NHS Foundation Trust has been working closely with Primary Care Network Leads and the Integrated Care Board to develop new Primary Care Network Practitioner roles working to enhance mental health provision within primary care. This vacancy covers Lewisham Neighbourhood 2 North - The Lewisham Care Partnership PCN., 1. To carry out assessments, care planning and interventions for patients with mental health needs. 2. To provide of advice, education and support to service users and their carers or family members. 3. To be an essential part of the interface between partner agencies including SLaM, primary care and voluntary sector. 4. To support effective transition to primary care and referral back into secondary care settings. 5. To be actively involved in the interventions provided by the primary care team and provide expert advice and support to enable them to provide an effective service for patients with mental health needs. 6. To provide peer support for the other Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners working across the Primary Care Networks.

The post holder must be an autonomous practitioner with excellent communication skills who can develop strong working relationships across the networks. You will use your own initiative and flexibility to adapt your practice to suit the needs of service users and the PCN that you will be working with. You will facilitate vertical integration between the PCN and SLAM, facilitating early step up and step down transitions when this is required. As a senior PCN Practitioner, you will benefit from wrap-around supervision and support, with an allocated supervisor in both primary and secondary care, as well as peer supervision through the Health and Wellbeing hub. We encourage applications from candidates who are keen continuously develop their practice. You we have access to the PCN Peer Support Network and well the newly established SLAM mentoring scheme. The post holder will work in a clinical role within the PCN using the stepped care approach provide early intervention to service users.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes.
• Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefit fromkeyworker housing which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers