Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 April 2026 |
| Location: | Huntingdon, PE29 7HN |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7745483/310-MASMH-7745483 |
Summary
Our Primary Care Mental Health Service is an award-winning service, receiving national interest as a new and innovative way of working in Primary Care. Based in GP practices and Neighbourhood teams we ensure that those with mental health needs are seen at the right time, in the right place, by the right people.
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner, who holds NMC or HCPC registration, to join us.
YOU
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to complete robust clinical assessments independently.
• Enjoy a new challenge, variety in your work, working in a passionate and driven team striving to make a difference for our community.
• Would like to be part of the exciting Community Transformation Programme.
WE
• Are a compassionate, supportive and professional service that will actively support your growth and development as a senior member of the team.
• Achieve and always seek to be the best we can be through teamwork and a clear vision.
Working as a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner, you will work across the interface between Primary Care and Mental Health Services to facilitate mental health assessment in primary care and support GPs with joint decision making in relation to secondary care referrals, signposting, and transition of service users from secondary mental health services back to Primary Care. Your expertise will help inform GPs management plans for those with mental health needs in primary care.
By providing support, education and problem-solving approaches for adults of working age, you will be an active member of the primary care team with the ability to undertake very short-term interventions for clients with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
This is not a caseload role or service, enabling you to be flexible and dynamic in a well-supported autonomous role that will allow experience, decision-making skills and service user focus to thrive and develop.
Please note for this role you will need the ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict time deadlines.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To support service users with transitioning from secondary care into primary care.
• To be a valued core member of primary care teams within an LCG, using specialist mental health knowledge.
• To develop links and foster a culture of partnership between Primary Care Teams and CPFT Adult Mental Health Services.
• To promote the use of treatment protocols and care pathways leading to increased integration of service users within Primary Care setting.
• To enable practitioners in Primary Care to develop their skills and confidence in assessment and treatment of particular mental health problems.
• Facilitate joint work between Primary Care and Secondary Care interface and Primary Care/Voluntary Sector to increase range of services/interventions available.
• To develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices, attending practice meetings and having regular informal contact.
• Interventions will be delivered under Primary care governance and policies whilst also maintaining adherence to CPFT Trust policy.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026