Job summary
- Main area
- Primary Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (or Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-COMM-8061569-JB
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tolworth Hospital
- Town
- Tolworth
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 pro rata per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners in Kingston. In this role you will work as part of the primary care team in specified Primary Care Network(s), providing support to GP practices for patients presenting with mental health problems. This support will include provision of advice, education, support and interventions to patients and carers. You will also have responsibility of the Mental Health Practitioners working across PCN’s in the specified borough.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will work as part of the primary care team in specified Primary Care Network(s), providing support to GP practices for patients presenting with mental health problems. This support will include provision of advice, education, support and interventions to patients and carers through bookable appointments. You will provide expert advice and education to primary care staff across the specified Primary Care Network(s).
You will also be responsible for the management of Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner's working across Primary Care Networks.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at 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. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To provide medicine education and adherence advice and lifestyle advice for patients and their carers, presenting with mental health problems
• To assist in supporting early intervention and supporting shared decision-making around self-management.
• To work with patients and team members to support engagement with appropriate services and treatment which may include onward referral to secondary mental health services or signposting to other mental health services, social prescribers, voluntary services and community-based support groups.
• To support patients to transition from secondary care to primary care by providing up to three step-down sessions at the point of step down from secondary care services.
• To support patients to transition from primary care to secondary care when more specialist or intensive support is required, such as for those patients with complex needs who require additional support.
• To support patients to stay well within their local communities, including the reinforcement of newly learned psychology techniques
• To always work to promote the safety and the wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.
• To develop and maintain close relationships with Primary Care practices, attending practice meetings and having regular informal contact.
• To work closely and in partnership with colleagues within primary care and the Trust in a collaborative way, ensuring that decisions are made that ensure the best care for service users and carers and that there is a seamless pathway of care.
• To work closely with GPs to assess risk of those patients with a Mental Health diagnosis; by providing expert advice and consultation.
• To support primary care teams with the administration of long-acting injections for those patients with complex needs who require additional support.
• To support patients on the SMI register to access annual physical health checks and to carry out these checks and physical health monitoring for those patients with complex needs who require additional support.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered mental health professional appropriate to the job role (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Pharmacy technician, Psychologist, Pharmacist)
- Evidence of post qualification training/education
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using quality improvement methodologies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant clinical experience
- Experience of working with people who have experienced serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of research based/reflective practice e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence-based practice
- Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions, including triage and assessment, to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
- Knowledge of clinical governance and audit
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working within primary care
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide quality care that is responsive to service user needs, without close supervision
- Good organisational skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others
Desirable criteria
- Specialised clinical skills, e.g. group work, anxiety/anger management, CBT, family work skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Riddett
- Job title
- Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Springfield University Hospital,
61 Glenburnie Rd,
London SW17 7DJ
- Telephone
- 020 3513 4615
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