Primary care link worker

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust • Full-time • Enfield, ENG, GB • £51.88k - £58.54k / year • 2m ago

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit band 7 primary care link workers to work in the Enfield Primary Care Network (PCNs). Successful candidates must be experienced mental health practitioners and have experience of working in a Primary Care and/or Community Mental Health Team setting. The intention is to focus services on local communities and local GP practices to help rebuild and reconnect healthcare teams across the communities they serve. This practitioner role will provide targeted care according to the needs of the population by supporting the PCN clinical strategy.

This is an exciting role for a professional who is proactive and passionate about innovation and providing high-quality care to people who have been identified as in need of mental health support in a primary care setting. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and skill set in a highly innovative and creative environment. The post holder will be an experienced professional who acts within their professional boundaries to work and develop within a Multi-Disciplinary Team.

The practitioner will access and link with secondary care mental health services and help provide a "bridge" between primary care and secondary care mental health providers. This will make it easier for people accessing services to obtain the help they need.

The practitioner will be embedded as part of the Primary Care Network working across member practices where they will be co-located for a proportion of the working week. They will work alongside the multi-disciplinary team and be closely linked to the Enfield Integrated Adult Mental Health Team. They will take the lead in ensuring best practice is delivered across the allocated GP surgeries, provide triage, assessment, interventions and lead on development and implementation of specialist mental health training in the practice.

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information relating to this role.