ARRS Mental Health Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to improve the experience for individuals with mental health needs through offering early assessment and access to treatment and support to promote mental health and well-being within primary care.

Embedded within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), our ARRS Practitioners are outward facing linking seamlessly with the Gloucestershire Health and Care (GHC) NHS Foundation Trust, where we will provide support with supervision and training opportunities. The PCNs provide a welcoming environment for SMHPs making them feel part of their teams and there is Countywide support from SMHP colleagues based in other practices.

The ARRS Practitioner will be an integrated member of the GP practice team and will take the lead in ensuring best practice is delivered across your allocated GP surgeries. The role requires working autonomously in providing high volume assessment, diagnosis, and treatment appointments, advice and support for GPs in caring for other patients with mental health issues, and improving links with and navigation to community providers. The MH Practitioner will work within a number of GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network.

Enthusiasm, an ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues across service areas to bring about change, and the desire to develop and improve services will be fundamental to these roles. Professional development, governance support, training, and supervision will be provided by GHC Trust working collaboratively with colleagues in Primary Care.

For more information please contact Hannah Rigby.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity, and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative.

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Rigby Job title: ARRS Primary Care MH Operational Lead Email address: hannah.rigby@ghc.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07812 709634