Band 7 Primary Care Mental Health Clinical Lead ARRS Role

Job summary

We have opportunities for Band 7 Primary Care Practitioners (ARRS) who are Registered Professionals to work in our Primary Care team in Warwickshire North

This is an exciting opportunity for committed and dynamic people to join us and build on the existing multi-disciplinary PCN (Primary Care Network) teams to support the mental health and well-being needs of local communities.

This post is ideal for professionals who are dynamic, proactive and passionate about team working, innovation, providing a high-quality holistic approach.

You will be employed by Coventry and Warwickshire and Partnership Trust but be embedded within a group of GP practices with a focus on supporting local patients living across North Warwickshire.

The local teams will work in partnership with secondary care mental health services, offering support and intervention which suits individual patient needs at the right time and in the right place. .

These posts are directly patient facing, so you will have a meaningful impact on improving the access, experience and outcomes for service users on a daily basis. Of course, it is really important that you have impressive communication, clinical and engagement skills which will help build the team and respond to the needs of both patients and the practices you will work with.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will work across several GP surgeries in North Warwickshire being the first point of contact for mental health support.

They will offer High quality and evidence based interventions that are recovery focussed and meet patient needs.

For more information please see job description.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.