Primary Care Mental Health First Contact Practitioner

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98Job Description:LPFT and K2 Primary Care Network are looking to recruit a Primary Care Mental Health First Contact Practitioners in the locality of Grantham.
These new position are an exciting and innovative role, key output will be to facilitate a more joined up approach to supporting people with mental health needs to achieve their health and wellbeing goals and access a range of community services.
It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. Support and interventions are delivered that are recovery focused and promote independence and resilience and deliver individual needs led, high quality outcomes for patients and carers. This ‘co-production model’ involves partners from all of Lincolnshire Primary and Secondary Health Services, Social Care and Voluntary Care Agencies and is being driven by our engagement work with patients and their carer’s. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services in the locality of Sleaford and Grantham.
Within the ‘first contact’ role, you will be acting as a specialist practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates a specialist knowledge base and specialist clinical skills and competencies.
You will carry out assigned tasks, including initial triage and administrative duties as delegated by the professional in charge. Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising, and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care.
You will support the provision of care navigation and active signposting, offering information to people about services, using local resource directories and local knowledge and referral’s on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing. The role will involve liaison with practice clinicians, as well as liaison with secondary care, social workers, and voluntary sector staff, where appropriate, and making best use of third sector and other community opportunities for promotion of patient wellbeing and maintenance of mental health.
To ensure delivery of a person-centred approach, “What matters to me” to all patients that enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing. Being an advocate for the patient in ensuring they receive appropriate timely care.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit to find out more .
We are focused on supporting individuals towards recovery, enabling them to live their best independent, fulfilled lives, connected to their local communities. Person Centred Care is at the heart of everything we do, and these new roles will help us drive a joined-up approach across all agencies who are involved in supporting people with mental health needs. We want to find new and creative ways for every individual that has contact with our services, or its partners, to be empowered.
Our vision openly welcomes creative and dynamic approaches, and we want to recruit individuals who embraces both change and challenge with a clear focus on delivering outcomes that make a difference.
As an employee of the trust, we can offer several benefits including relocation package up to £8000 *subject to relocation procedure and eligibility procedure, lease care scheme, home electronic scheme, staff wellbeing support, free eyesight tests and early access to physiotherapy.
For detailed information, please see attached Job Description and Person Specific information.
If you would like the opportunity to discuss the role, please contact Emma Barrass, service manager: Location: Grantham