Job Description

Job Summary

Modality Partnership Nottingham Division has a full time vacancy for a skilled and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will be working across Wellspring Surgery and Windmill Practice within Modality Partnership Nottingham.

This practice-based role enhances timely, holistic mental health care for our diverse inner-city population through a 'first contact mental health worker' model embedded within primary care. You will be a first contact mental health worker embedded in general practice, delivering holistic care through triage, assessment, brief interventions, and reviews. You will work autonomously while collaborating with GPs, PCN mental health colleagues and local services, improving access to mental health support for our diverse inner-city population of 22,000 patients. If you are passionate about improving mental health in primary care and want to be part of an innovative and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.

The role is primarily based in practice, with some remote working likely as part of flexible service delivery.

This job is suitable for individuals who can demonstrate safe and effective patient interactions ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care whilst working alongside the wider nursing team and practice team.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Flexible working

Wellbeing support and initiative

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

This is a hands-on patient facing role; we are seeking individuals to join our team who are caring, compassionate and confident. Applications are welcome from candidates with a background in mental health nursing, social work, allied health professions, or other relevant fields, with a proven ability to provide safe, effective, and person-centred mental health care.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly within the healthcare team and support us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills in primary care with career advancing opportunities.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Key Responsibilities:

Work autonomously to manage a caseload of patients, undertaking comprehensive assessment of physical, social, and psychological needs to develop personalised, holistic healthcare plans.

Create and communicate clear management plans in collaboration with patients, empowering them in their care.

Deliver non-judgemental care, building therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.

Undertake triage, initial assessments, brief interventions, and reviews for patients accessing mental health support through the practice triage system.

Be professionally accountable for patient care, providing direct psycho-social therapeutic interventions or signposting to appropriate services as needed.

Provide clinical advice and specialist opinion to GPs and other members of the practice team, both in-person and remotely where appropriate.

Play an active role in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, applying safeguarding awareness and management on a case-by-case basis.

Liaise effectively across practice-based care, the PCN Mental Health Nurse, and local secondary mental health services to ensure integrated and seamless patient care.

Contribute navigation and networking expertise to improve access to a broad range of community-based mental health services and support.

Support the development of patient-facing mental health information and support services, including the creation of group-based services and innovative hybrid or online service options in collaboration with the Modality Partnership, and incorporating remote delivery as appropriate.

Complete relevant health checks related to mental health and contribute to continuous quality improvement initiatives within the practices.

You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.

Pre-employment

Vaccinations

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification:

What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?

Qualifications and Experience:

Essential Criteria

Qualifications:

Current professional registration with NMC, HCPC or other relevant UK professional body

Experience:

Experience in the assessment and management of people presenting with mental health needs

Proven ability to develop holistic management plans for patients

Experience delivering psycho-social interventions in mental health

Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams

Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practices and processes

Have experience in acute mental health assessment and management.

Skills:

Ability to triage, assess and manage mental health presentations in a primary care or community setting

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to build therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries

Ability to provide specialist clinical advice to GPs and colleagues

Effective time management and ability to work independently

Competent IT skills, with the ability to use clinical systems and digital tools

Be confident in providing psycho-social interventions and navigating patients to appropriate community resources.

Possess excellent interpersonal skills and thrive in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

Demonstrate a strong commitment to safeguarding and to improving access and outcomes for patients with mental health needs.

Knowledge:

Awareness of local mental health pathways and community resources

Understanding of the social determinants of health and impact on mental wellbeing

Other:

Ability to travel between sites as required and work remotely where appropriate

Commitment to own professional development and reflective practice

Desirable Criteria

Qualifications:

Additional training in specific therapeutic interventions (CBT, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed approaches)

Experience:

Experience working in general practice or primary care settings

Experience in developing group-based mental health services

Experience of delivering or contributing to hybrid or online mental health services

Knowledge:

Understanding of quality improvement processes in healthcare

Knowledge of AI-supported clinical tools and digital health innovation

Salary is per annum WTE

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 46,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Health & wellbeing programme
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 25/06/2025