Publication, Part of Primary Care Network Workforce
Primary Care Network Workforce, 30 April 2023
Official statistics
Notice of Changes
New job roles including Mental Health Practitioners
New job roles were added to the National Workforce Reporting Service (NWRS) collection tool during March 2023. They are:
- General Practice Assistant
- Social Worker
- Peer Support Worker
- Applied Psychologist
- Community Mental Health Nurse
There is now also new NWRS functionality to specify whether certain roles are Mental Health Practitioners, and whether they cover adult or young people’s care. The applicable roles are:
Direct Patient Care:
- Social Worker
- Peer Support Worker
- Applied Psychologist – Clinical
- Social Prescribing Link Worker
- Therapist – Occupational Therapist
- Therapist – Counsellor
- Therapist – Other
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
- Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Trainee Clinical Associate in Psychology
Nursing:
- Community Mental Health Nurse
All these roles, including the mental health practitioner variants, are included for the first time in the publication tables for this release.
In the Excel tables, mental health practitioners for adults, and mental health practitioners for children and young people, have been grouped as mental health practitioners for each of the job roles they relate to. In the Individual-level CSV, the type of mental health practitioner is presented in the Detailed_staff_role field.
Last edited: 25 May 2023 9:33 am