Job summary
This is a home based post

Home based, you will work from your home in the UK, delivering consultations by telephone and video.
UK only, you must live in the UK and carry out all work from within the UK.
In person at the start, you must be willing to travel to MBPCC head office to collect your equipment and attend a face to face induction.
Suitable environment, you must have a private, secure and suitable space to work from, with reliable broadband.
Audit and monitoring, your home working arrangements, records and information governance compliance will be audited and monitored.

The Mental Health Practitioner is the Enable team's specialist for working age adults whose mental health affects their ability to work. Working from home, you will see patients referred through Enable triage by telephone and video, assess their mental health, risk and work situation, and agree a time limited, work focused plan that supports them to stay in or return to work.

You will also be the team's source of mental health expertise. You will advise and upskill colleagues completing workability plans, and help shape how the pilot manages mental health presentations. This is a primary care, early intervention role; it is not a crisis or secondary care service. Patients needing longer term or specialist treatment are referred on through agreed pathways.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out holistic bio psychosocial assessments of adults referred with common mental health problems for example anxiety, depression and work related stress by telephone or video.
• At the start of every remote consultation, confirm the patient's identity, current location and a contact number, so that urgent help can be directed to them if needed.
• Complete a structured risk assessment at every contact. Escalate urgent risk the same day through the crisis, safeguarding and GP pathways, and record the decision and rationale.
• Agree a time limited, work focused plan with each patient, typically an assessment and up to three follow up contacts. Draw on evidence based approaches such as motivational interviewing, behavioural activation, problem solving, guided self help and graded return to work.
• Use validated outcome measures at agreed points, PHQ-9, GAD-7 and the Work and Social Adjustment Scale to track progress and inform decisions.
• Refer or signpost to NHS Talking Therapies including employment advisers, community mental health teams, Access to Work, the Enable Social Prescriber and voluntary sector services, and follow up that the referral was received.
• The post holder is not expected to independently request diagnostic investigations unless specifically authorised through professional registration, local policy and competency assessment.

About us
Enable is one of four national pilots funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, DWP to test a better fit note process, and it is the most clinical of the four. MBPCC delivers it under an NHS contract across the Barrow and Mid Furness Primary Care Networks.

For participating practices, every fit note is issued by the multidisciplinary Enable service rather than the GP practice. There is no change to fit note legislation, so every patient still needs a valid, signed fit note. Working patients who agree to take part receive a workability assessment and a personalised workability plan that focuses on what they can do and how to stay in, or return to, work. Employers are contacted only with the patient's explicit agreement. The pilot generates data and learning for the DWP to shape future national policy.

The service uses EMIS, AccuRx, X-on Surgery Connect and Florey questionnaires. This post is home based, consultations are delivered by telephone and video, and the post holder works with the Enable team through Microsoft Teams and the service's clinical systems.

Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £40,000 a year Pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: B0160-26-0031
Job locations: Remote/Home Working, Remote, LA14 2HG, United Kingdom

Key responsibilities

• Complete workability assessments and workability plans for patients whose main barrier to work is their mental health, within the standard appointment time.
• Act as the mental health lead within the Enable team, giving same day advice by Teams or telephone to Occupational Health Nurses, the ANP and other colleagues on mental health presentations and risk.
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous clinical records in EMIS, using the agreed Enable templates and codes, and use AccuRx and Florey questionnaires as the service requires.
• Maintain professional registration and meet NMC standards and revalidation requirements.

Contract and hours
This is a fixed term post funded through the national pilot. Continuation beyond the pilot period cannot be guaranteed and is subject to national decisions on the future of the model.
The post holder will be expected to work in a rapidly evolving service where processes, systems and documentation change during the pilot period.

This is a home based post. MBPCC's Homeworking, Hybrid Working and Remote Learning Guidance applies in full, and the post holder remains subject to the same professional, contractual, governance and performance expectations as staff working from MBPCC premises.

Location and in-person attendance

• Live in the UK and carry out all work from a UK address for the duration of employment. Working from outside the UK is not permitted.
• Deliver patient consultations remotely by telephone and video, using MBPCC approved systems only.
• Travel to MBPCC head office at the start of employment to collect MBPCC equipment and to attend a face to face induction.
• Attend MBPCC head office again where equipment needs to be collected, exchanged or returned, including at the end of employment.

Information governance and cyber security

• Use only MBPCC issued devices, organisational accounts and approved systems and video conferencing platforms. Do not store confidential information on personal or unapproved systems.
• Lock screens when away from the workstation, keep passwords, smartcards and fingerprint access to yourself, and do not allow anyone else to use MBPCC devices or systems.
• Verify who is present before discussing confidential information, share only the minimum necessary, and keep patient identifiable information out of chat functions unless clinically necessary and authorised.
• Do not record, screenshot or photograph consultations, meetings or training unless this has been authorised. Do not join patient related calls from public places.
• Secure and dispose of any paper records using approved methods, and report any information governance or cyber security incident immediately.

Personal qualities and experience (essential)

• At least 2 years post registration experience in adult mental health
• Independent assessment and risk management of adults with mental health problems
• Experience of assessing and managing suicidal ideation, self-harm risk and deterioration in mental state within remote consultations.
• Registered Mental Health Nurse, NMC
• Satisfactory enhanced DBS check

Contact
For questions about the job, contact: HR Manager, Pam Compston, pamela.compston@nhs.net

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Apply through our website.