Senior Primary Care Mental Health Nurse


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 to £56,515 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Chelmsford, CM1 7LF
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	2 Oct 2026
Closing date:	15 Oct 2026

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Summary

The Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner will play a key role in delivering high-quality, integrated mental health care within Primary Care, ensuring patients receive timely assessment, intervention, and access to the most appropriate services. Key responsibilities include: Providing comprehensive mental health assessments, triage, risk assessment, care planning, treatment, and follow-up for individuals experiencing common mental health disorders. Acting as a gatekeeper for referrals into secondary mental health services, ensuring patients are supported through a seamless pathway of care and are not unnecessarily passed between services. Working collaboratively with GPs, Primary Care teams, Consultant Psychiatrists, Community Mental Health Teams, and partner agencies to support recovery and wellbeing in the community. Delivering evidence-based psychological and non-psychological interventions in line with NICE guidance and best practice. Signposting and referring service users to appropriate internal, external, statutory, voluntary, and community-based services to meet identified needs. Providing specialist advice, consultation, education, and support to enhance the assessment and management of mental health presentations. Undertaking physical health monitoring and investigations, including ECGs, and supporting the integration of physical and mental healthcare. Supporting safe clinical practice and ensuring compliance with Trust policies, Clinical Governance frameworks, Care Quality Commission standards, and the NHS Constitution. Managing medication safely, including monitoring effectiveness, side effects, concordance, and providing education and support to service users and carers. Providing professional and clinical leadership within multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding processes, and complex case discussions. Supervising, supporting, and developing junior staff where appropriate, contributing to workforce development and service improvement. Delivering training and educational programmes to Primary Care teams to improve knowledge and understanding of mental health and wellbeing. Contributing to the ongoing development of integrated care pathways, service redesign, quality improvement initiatives, and the achievement of service performance targets and KPIs. Maintaining accurate clinical records, incident reporting, risk management documentation, and activity data using electronic patient record systems, including SystmOne. Promoting patient independence, recovery, and positive health outcomes through person-centred care. The above is not an exhaustive list of expected clinical or managerial duties to be undertaken.

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