Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner - ARRS HaLo PCN
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role involves working as a Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner within the HaLo Primary Care Network in St Albans, providing mental health assessments and brief interventions in GP surgeries. You will triage, assess, case manage, and discharge patients autonomously, advising on medications and managing clinical risk. The position also includes leading service innovation, development, and training for junior colleagues within primary care mental health services. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies to ensure integrated care.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of relevant post registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions
- Willingness to complete Independent Prescribing within 12m of starting post
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescriber
- Recognised Post Graduate clinical or leadership qualification relevant to the role
- Mentor and mentorship training
- Extensive post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs.
- Community experience in mental health services for adults and older age adults with severe / significant mental illness
- Experience of providing a range of evidence based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness
- Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Experience in physical health assessment for people with mental health needs.
- Experience of effective collaborative working in partnership to deliver holistic health and social care outcomes.
- Evidence of Interdisciplinary / multi-agency working experience including primary care and community/ voluntary sector.
- Experience of leadership and development of junior colleagues.
- Proficient in clinical audits and research.
- Experience of working in primary and secondary mental health services.
- Experience in the planning and delivery of training and practice developments to staff.
- Experience in service evaluation and improvements.
- Experience working in a CAMHS and/or OPMH service
- Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of relevant post registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions
- Willingness to complete Independent Prescribing within 12m of starting post
- Independent Prescriber
- Recognised Post Graduate clinical or leadership qualification relevant to the role
- Mentor and mentorship training
- Extensive post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs.
- Community experience in mental health services for adults and older age adults with severe / significant mental illness
- Experience of providing a range of evidence based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness
- Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Experience in physical health assessment for people with mental health needs.
- Experience of effective collaborative working in partnership to deliver holistic health and social care outcomes.
- Evidence of Interdisciplinary / multi-agency working experience including primary care and community/ voluntary sector.
- Experience of leadership and development of junior colleagues.
- Proficient in clinical audits and research.
- Experience of working in primary and secondary mental health services.
- Experience in the planning and delivery of training and practice developments to staff.
- Experience in service evaluation and improvements.
- Experience working in a CAMHS and/or OPMH service
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner - ARRS HaLo PCN
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
We are excited to recruit to the role of Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (Band 7) in Hertfordshire's HaLo Primary Care Network (PCN) covering the following GP surgeries in the St Albans area:
The Lodge Health Partnership
Harvey House Practice
The role will involve travel between the PCN sites as well as travel to HPFT sites for things such as mandatory training.
You will work alongside other clinicians within the PCN as part of a multidisciplinary team.
You will need to be able to work autonomously to triage, assess, case manage and discharge a patient without referral to a GP where appropriate.
You must be able to advise on medications, identify and intervene to meet social needs, order investigations and refer on to secondary care services where necessary.
You will act as a first point of contact in primary care. You will accept referrals for triage via agreed routes within the PCN. You will offer rapid and autonomous 'first contact' assessment and promote early treatment by supporting people directly into appropriate mental health pathways across both the statutory and voluntary sectors and will provide short term interventions on the telephone, via video link options, at th
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