Primary Care Mental Health Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Primary Care Mental Health Team as a Mental Health Lead in Kirkby. The role focuses on improving collaboration between primary and secondary care services to ensure patients access the right mental health support at the right time. You will work closely with Kirkby GPs, the Kirkby PCN, and Mersey Care to support individuals with mental health difficulties. The post involves managing a defined area of responsibility, ensuring high standards of care, and maintaining links with other professionals.
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification - RMN / Occupational Therapist
Desirable criteria
- NMP Qualification
- Completed course/module research methods
- Significant evidence of post registration experience, in relevant service areas.
- Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups.
- Understanding of Adult safeguarding issues
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Evidence of audit's undertaken and outcomes.
- Experience of presentations at local, regional, national level.
- Experience of providing supervision to others, and experience in a leadership role.
- Competent in using databases and spread sheets
- Demonstrates ability and Knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
- Evidence continued leadership development
- Evidence of excellent clinical record keeping
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills.
- Undertaken a leadership programme.
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Evidence continued leadership development
- Relevant professional qualification - RMN / Occupational Therapist
- NMP Qualification
- Completed course/module research methods
- Significant evidence of post registration experience, in relevant service areas.
- Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups.
- Understanding of Adult safeguarding issues
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Evidence of audit's undertaken and outcomes.
- Experience of presentations at local, regional, national level.
- Experience of providing supervision to others, and experience in a leadership role.
- Competent in using databases and spread sheets
- Demonstrates ability and Knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
- Evidence continued leadership development
- Evidence of excellent clinical record keeping
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
- Maintained development of clinical leadership skills.
- Undertaken a leadership programme.
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Evidence continued leadership development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Primary Care Mental Health Lead
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
An exiting opportunity has arisen to join the Primary Care Mental Health Team as a Mental Health Lead in Kirkby.
This is an exiting post improving collaboration between primary care secondary care services to support patients getting access to the right service, at the right time, in the right place.
This post will be working closely with Kirkby GP's, Kirkby PCN and Mersey Care to support those with mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
To manage a defined area of responsibility safely and effectively, ensuring the delivery of a high standard of care to the service users by supervising and monitoring a range of multi disciplinary.
To maintain close links with other professionals both internal and external to the Trust to maintain a high quality of service delivery.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mer
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