South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT). We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner; nurse, social worker, psychologist or occupational therapist to join the team.
From working in the team you will be able to gain more knowledge of completing triage assessments, having a caseload and offering short term interventions. The team is made of a diverse MDT, we offer teaching sessions, space for reflective practice and an opportunity to be a champion in your chosen areas.
You will be working as part of a Primary Care Mental Health Team to deliver timely assessments, care planning and evidenced based health and psychosocial care interventions to the adult population in Lewisham with mental health needs. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to interface directly with partner agencies including Primary Care, Secondary Care and MIND to ensure effective service delivery and discharge planning.
The PCMHT’s are now working directly with Primary Care and sharing the same electronic record system and the successful candidate will receive training. The team works with our newly developed Care Process Model to ensure our patients and carers receive standardised care.
Main duties of the job
- To support the team with overall management of referrals, providing timely screening, triage and trusted assessments for patients with a wide range of mental disorder.
- To be professionally accountable for a delivering a range of evidenced based psycho-social interventions for a specific case list.
- To work in collaboration with our partner agencies and the MDT to provide a range of interventions to support service users to stay well within their local communities including psychological, social prescribing and medication advice and management
- To work with patients and carers using evidenced based tool to inform care planning to support engagement with treatment and appropriate services.
- To support family and carers with the management of risk and to escalate all risk concerns as required ensuring that there is clear communication of risk to all involved with care.
- To develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices with the PCN, attending practice meetings and effective communication
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Holdd a professional qualification
- Evidence of recent continued professional development.
Desirable
- A commitment to completing quality improvement training.
- Mentorship or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience.
- Demonstrate ability to complete good quality 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.
- Knowledge of relevant professional and clinical legislation.
- Ability to proactively and independently manage a workload.
- Experience of successfully providing a range of clinical interventions, including triage and assessment, to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of developing and facilitating teaching programme for staff.
- Experience of working in a community mental health setting.
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health.
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of the relationship between primary and secondary care services.
- Awareness of racial and diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
- Knowledge of key legislation and guidelines in relation to statutory mental health responsibilities, including Safeguarding Adults, Young people and children.
- An understanding of the stepped care model of delivery of psychological therapies for depression, anxiety and personality disorder.
- Ability to provide quality care that is responsive to service user needs, without close supervision.
Desirable
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment.
- Knowledge of the theory of psychological models, such as CBT, DBT, or MBT.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to clients, their families and colleagues.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate and to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive and/or challenging behaviour.
- Effective IT skills.
- Good organisational skills.
- Skills in emotional resilience: able to cope in difficult interpersonal situations.
Desirable
- Accredited practitioner skills in at least one model of psychological therapy.
- Accredited nurse prescriber
- Ability to contribute to, monitor and implement changes and improvements to services.
- Specialised clinical skills, e.g. group work, anxiety/anger management, family work skills
Closing Date: 19 July 2026
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