PCN Team Roles

The Primary Care Network teams work together and with community organisations to provide extra services to help our patients stay healthy.

MHPs

Mental Health Practitioners

Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs) take on a "first contact role", providing a vital bridge between primary care and specialist mental health providers, with a holistic and ongoing care approach for patients with a range of needs.  MHPs work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, to promote patient wellbeing and maintenance of mental health to support patients in shared decision-making about self-management, facilitate onward access to treatment services and to provide brief psychological interventions.

Trainee Associate Psychological Practitioners

TAPPs

Psychology is one of the most popular and largest undergraduate degree subjects.  Trainee Associate Psychological Practitioners (TAPPs) are appointed on a one-year training contract to deliver psychlogical service input in a supervised role across a range of services from adult mental health, through primary care and health psychology.

Associate Psychological Practitioners

Associate Psychological Practitioners (APPs), will have a degree in psychology a postgraduate Diploma to enhance their clinical delivery skills and like the TAPPs, will have undergone a one-year training contract to deliver psychological service input in a supervised role across a range of services from adult mental health, through primary care and health psychology.  When training has been completed APPs assist in providing psychological assessments and conducting basic therapy for clients with psychological conditions such as low mood, sleep issues, stress and anxiety.

Nursing Associates

Following on from their training, Nursing Associates will help build the capacity of the nursing workforce and support the delivery of high-quality health care, as they are trained to work with patients of all ages in a variety of settings across all the four fields of nursing.  They are a vital part of the wider health and care team.