Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 27 February 2026

As part of our community mental health transformation programme, we are excited to implement Mental Health Practitioner roles across the Primary Care Network, supporting primary care to improve the offer across PCNs in Wakefield (East). The Mental Health Practitioner roles are exciting new posts, and you will bring your mental health expertise into the heart of communities, working closely alongside GPs and a range of MDT colleagues to provide a bio‑psycho‑social approach to assessment and interventions.

If you are passionate about delivering innovative mental health care, working as part of a diverse primary care team, and coaching and developing the wider staff team around mental health, this could be just the post for you. This postholder will be based within a PCN on the east of the district. Agile working is expected, and the hours of work currently are across 5 days 9/5.

For further information contact Lead Mental Health Practitioner Richard Barratt .

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

The post holder will be responsible for conducting mental health assessments with all people referred, determining mental health needs and the most appropriate service/agency to meet those needs. The post holder may engage in brief therapeutic work, refer the person to another service, or advise them of other sources of support. The post holder will build and maintain effective links with all disciplines within the PCNs and will work as an integrated part of the PCN MDT.

The post holder’s approach should be driven by the underpinning philosophies of mental health promotion, empowerment and personal responsibility. This work will focus on the service users who are identified as requiring mental health support to access treatment and improve their wellbeing. The successful candidate will be expected to provide easily accessed advice for the integrated care teams and support identification of the training needs of staff.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up‑to‑date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non‑clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we are accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

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