Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an innovative part-time role providing mental health support to Primary Care Networks in Knowsley. The practitioner will work across primary care and mental health services, offering advice, support, and assessment to local teams, service users, and carers. The aim is to improve the experience for patients with mental health needs, seeing new presentations and signposting to appropriate services. The role involves screening, assessment, safeguarding, risk management, and referral to secondary care when necessary.
Essential criteria
- Registered on the appropriate part of the NMC register and hold a current NMC registration or holds a relevant professional qualification (to be maintained)
- Assessor/Mentorship Training\*
Desirable criteria
- Post registration training in relevant field
- Leadership/Management training
- Qualification in nonmedical prescribing
- Knowledge/Experience
- Experience of mentorship, supervision and coordination of staff.
- Experience of Care Planning process working in a multi- agency framework.
- Demonstrate a contribution to change management process
- Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches
- Recovery model
- Mental Health Act (1983)
- Effective Care Coordination
- Relevant national policies and guidance
- Evidence based and reflective practice
- Mental Capacity Act
- Vulnerable Adults Procedure and Child Protection
- Safety, Privacy and Dignity Guidelines
- Community experience
- Experience of working as a Nurse in Charge/ Shift Coordinator
- Experience in positive leadership of a team An overview of the Trust's objectives
- Demonstrate sound leadership qualities and an understanding of management styles
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting
- Ability to delegate and co- ordinate
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings
- IT skills
- Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate
- Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues
- Effective time and workload management
- Mentorship skills and record keeping
- Ability to identify and minimise risk effectively
- Ability to travel in the course of performing duties.
- Flexible approach to working
- Commitment to effective teamwork
- Commitment to service development
- Good time management
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Project Management
- Formulation of reports
- Presentation skills
- Resource and budget management
- Registered on the appropriate part of the NMC register and hold a current NMC registration or holds a relevant professional qualification (to be maintained)
- Assessor/Mentorship Training\*
- Post registration training in relevant field
- Leadership/Management training
- Qualification in nonmedical prescribing
- Knowledge/Experience
- Experience of mentorship, supervision and coordination of staff.
- Experience of Care Planning process working in a multi- agency framework.
- Demonstrate a contribution to change management process
- Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches
- Recovery model
- Mental Health Act (1983)
- Effective Care Coordination
- Relevant national policies and guidance
- Evidence based and reflective practice
- Mental Capacity Act
- Vulnerable Adults Procedure and Child Protection
- Safety, Privacy and Dignity Guidelines
- Community experience
- Experience of working as a Nurse in Charge/ Shift Coordinator
- Experience in positive leadership of a team An overview of the Trust's objectives
- Demonstrate sound leadership qualities and an understanding of management styles
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting
- Ability to delegate and co- ordinate
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings
- IT skills
- Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate
- Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues
- Effective time and workload management
- Mentorship skills and record keeping
- Ability to identify and minimise risk effectively
- Ability to travel in the course of performing duties.
- Flexible approach to working
- Commitment to effective teamwork
- Commitment to service development
- Good time management
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Project Management
- Formulation of reports
- Presentation skills
- Resource and budget management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
This position is an exciting and innovative role, which will help to provide mental health support to Primary Care Networks in Knowsley.
Youwill primarily work in primary care but also work across the interface between Primary Care and Mental Health Services to provide advice, support and assessment to the Local Primary Care Teams, Service Users and Carers.
The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs who would otherwise have seen a GP and the post holder will see new presentations of primary care mental health problems.
Main duties of the job
To be based within a number of GP practices across Knowsley South & Central, supporting Primary Mental Health Care, with experienced nursing screening and assessment skills, being able to signpost to communities, safeguard, raise risks and refer into secondary care when required.
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. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts
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