ARRS Mental Health Practitioner
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucester, GL1 1PX
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
4 September 2026
4 days left
Job description
ARRS Mental Health Practitioner - Cheltenham Peripheral PCN (covering Sixways Clinic GL52 6HS and Cleevelands Medical Centre GL52 7YU) This is an exci...
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, improve 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 (Operational Lead)
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
The post holder will be expected
- To work within a multi-professional primary care team to provide a service for adults 18+ with varying levels of mental health needs, including SMI and Complex Emotional Needs that may co-exist with physical health problems within the registered patient population.
- To exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.
- To act as a practice leader, managing your own workload and to work across professional, organisational and system boundaries to improve services and develop practice.
- To navigate, liaise with and refer onto mental health services, voluntary and public sector agencies and community support groups.
- To support the delivery of annual mental health reviews for adults on the practices mental health register.
- To provide specialist advice, supervision and support to practice colleagues in relation to patients with mental health issues. In particular to help identify (through Risk Stratification) those patients potentially at risk of relapse to support their continued wellbeing and to reduce their impact on the Health and Wellbeing service as a whole.
The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Practitioner, eg Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
Desirable
- Non Medical Prescriber
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Significant, recent clinical experience in the assessment of mental health at Band 7 level.
- Front line experience of using advanced assessment skills especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health (functional and organic) and differentiation between physical and mental health symptoms and conditions.
- Extensive working knowledge of the makeup of the wider health and social care community including statutory and non-statutory services and direct experience of multi inter-agency working and collaboration.
- Detailed working knowledge of how specialist mental health services are organised and operate, where and how they fit into the health and social care community.
Desirable
- Contemporary experience of working in a primary care setting.
- Experience of assessment and management of patients with mental health conditions in a primary care setting.
- Experience of the wider community mental health service in recovery / crisis teams.
PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- Resilient and able to manage a significantly different, fast-paced workload in primary care.
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Confident to work without explicit supervision
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First seen
20 August 2026
Last checked
24 August 2026
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