Primary Care Mental Health Worker

This service is temporarily unavailable at Heilendi Practice.

The role of Primary Care Mental Health Nurse is an exciting new addition to the Primary Care multidisciplinary team, which has been growing over the recent months. The purpose of this role is to allow access to specialist mental health support and treatment direct from the local GP practices. By intervening earlier, we hope to improve outcomes for patients and in some cases more severe mental health difficulties may be avoided.

The main focus of the Primary Care Mental Health Nurse is:

To promote positive mental health and wellbeing for all
To provide information, guidance, support and access to treatments for mild to moderate mental health conditions such as anxiety and low mood
To provide specialist community based mental health support for individuals in crisis
To work as part of a wider multidisciplinary team to support our local community

Patients may be referred to this service after being reviewed by their GP or other specialist service.

Please note, for those patients who are currently receiving treatment from the Community Mental Health Team, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Psychiatry or Psychology, we would ask that any queries be referred to them in the first instance.