Sutton is looking to employ a Mental Health Practitioner under the additional roles reimbursement scheme to work directly with its practices to improve the experience for our Adult patients with mental health needs who would otherwise have seen a GP. You will provide an excellent understanding and working knowledge of common mental health problems and their management in primary care, delivering brief therapy interventions where qualified and as part of an individual needs led plan. They will be accountable to the Primary Care Networks, working in individual PCNs and across PCNs to support the multi-disciplinary teams and relevant services required.

Main duties of the job

The role aims to improve the experience for our patients including children and adults with mental health needs who would otherwise have seen a GP. The post holder will see new presentations of primary care mental health problems and manage a caseload. The focus will be providing continuous ass...