Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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 part-time Band 5 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner role involves working within three GP surgeries in the Richmond Primary Care Network. The practitioner will provide advice, education, support, and interventions to patients and carers with mental health problems. A key focus is improving health outcomes for patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) by supporting access and conducting physical health checks. The role requires autonomous working and experience in a fast-paced environment, facilitating access to various mental health services.
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience
- Experience of working with people who have experienced serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervision and/or mentoring of junior staff and students
- Experience of working as a Recovery Support Worker in Mental Health
- Training & Qualifications
- Registered mental health professional appropriate to the job role (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Pharmacy technician)
- Or Non-registered psychological professionals (including those on voluntary and accredited registers) who have specific competences in evidence-based psychological therapies for severe mental health problems
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Training in support of people with mental health problems
- Training in recovery approaches in mental health
- Knowledge & Skills
- Able to proactively and independently manage workload
- Ability to provide quality care that is responsive to service user needs, without close supervision
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Relevant clinical experience
- Experience of working with people who have experienced serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of 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
- Experience of supervision and/or mentoring of junior staff and students
- Experience of working as a Recovery Support Worker in Mental Health
- Training & Qualifications
- Registered mental health professional appropriate to the job role (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Pharmacy technician)
- Or Non-registered psychological professionals (including those on voluntary and accredited registers) who have specific competences in evidence-based psychological therapies for severe mental health problems
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Training in support of people with mental health problems
- Training in recovery approaches in mental health
- Knowledge & Skills
- Able to proactively and independently manage workload
- Ability to provide quality care that is responsive to service user needs, without close supervision
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £36,943 – £44,900 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit for a part time Band 5 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner in Richmond.
In this role you will work outside of three GP surgeries within the Richmond Primary Care Network (PCN), as part of the primary care team. You will be providing support to GP practices for patients presenting with mental health problems including; provision of advice, education, support and interventions to patients and carers. A main focus of this role is on improving health outcomes for patients with Serious Mental Illness (SMI); supporting access and carrying out physical health checks in their GP surgery to this population.
Main duties of the job
The practitioner's work will generally be for people whose needs cannot be met by IAPT services but who may not need ongoing care from secondary care community mental health services. The practitioner can facilitate onward access to other secondary care-based services, or third sector services integrated within the mental health pathway. The role will require a level of autonomous working and experience of working in a fast-paced environment.
The practitioner will also be embedded as part of the Primary Care Network Multi-Disciplinary Team and will rec
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