Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

The Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner role is an exciting development within our primary care mental health workforce. This role will give the post holder the opportunity to apply and use their skills within a primary care setting ensuring that individuals receive appropriate and timely assessment and interventions, while working with partner agencies to embed the community mental health transformation model., The Primary Care Practitioner role is new to Gateshead Inner West and looks to offer a mix of first contact triage and follow up brief interventions. This is an autonomous role and the successful applicant will have access to peer support via a daily huddle with other Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners.
The successful applicant will be offering assessment, brief intervention and navigation to local services to both working age adults and older patients. You should have extensive clinical knowledge and experience across a range of mental health settings. You will be working into the 5 GP surgeries across the PCN (Chainbridge, Teams, Glenpark, Whickham and Sunniside.

We are so delighted you are considering coming to work with us at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW)., An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced mental health clinician to work as a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner to work into Gateshead Inner West PCN
Based in the Inner West of Gateshead our Primary Care Network serves over 45,000 patients across our five member Practices of: Whickham Medical Cottage, Chainbridge Medical Partnership, Glenpark Medical Practice, Teams Medical Practice & Sunniside Surgery.
We provide integrated services to our local population. Aiming to deliver more personalised, coordinated health and social care for people close to home.

We know the power of looking into an organisation, one you might want to work in, or one where you are going to get help, and being able to say, 'I've seen somewhere I can fit in and be myself.' We're on a journey to make the Trust an inclusive employer, representative of the community we serve and we want more of our community to consider applying for jobs with us.
Opportunities for you
Spanning east to west coasts from Northumberland to Cumbria and from the Scottish Borders down to Middlesbrough we've got exciting new opportunities available at every level and in every area.
We offer flexible working, helping work fit around family and caring responsibilities, or training and development needs and there's lots on offer in the way of benefits, such as, lease cars, childcare schemes, staff discounts, season tickets for travel and a cycle to work scheme. All this in a vibrant workplace supported by the following staff networks.
+ Cultural diversity staff network
+ Disabled staff network
+ LGBT+ staff network
We also have a number of staff support groups which are open to any staff to attend. These Include:
+ Armed Forces and Veterans Staff Association
+ Mind, Health and Wellbeing Community
+ Menopause toolkit and cafes and staff carer support group
We offer fantastic personal development opportunities through our Collective Leadership Programme and other Organisational Development initiatives. Whatever you are looking for, you will be joining a supportive, friendly team, offering varied and interesting roles, with opportunities for career progression.
Always improving
CNTW is regulated by the national healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our last two inspections have rated us as an outstanding organisation. We're always seeking to improve as an organisation. Do you want to be part of that?