Are you an experienced and motivated mental health professional looking for a new challenge in a primary care setting? Do you have enhanced skills in assessment and brief interventions? Can you empower people to make choices about their own treatment and communicate effectively with a wide range of professionals?

If you answer 'yes' to all these questions and you would relish the opportunity to be at the forefront of new developments in primary care mental health, then being a Primary Care Mental Health Linkworker could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Suffolk Wellbeing Service is looking for an experienced mental health professional to join our established, friendly, and supportive Linkworker Team covering East Suffolk. The team provides a point of access into mental services for people experiencing a wide range of mild-moderate mental health problems in primary care. Linkworkers are usually based in GP surgeries across the county and offer a face-to-face and telephone assessments and brief interventions for patients in primary care. Our base sites are located in Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds.

Applicants are expected to hold a core professional qualification (Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist) and should have at least one year's community experience.

There is currently one part time (30hrs/week) position available.

Main duties of the job

As a Primary Care Mental Health Linkworker, you will be working collaboratively with clients ages 16 and above, presenting with a range of mental health needs within a primary care environment. The post holder requires to carry out mental health assessments, identify care pathways within SWS or seek alternative service options treatment options, interventions and/or signpost to the most suitable service provider. Primary Care Mental Health Linkworker's also work alongside GP's and liaise with colleagues from multiple sectors, both statutory and non-statutory, to provide expert advice and education in accordance with evidence based NICE guidance.

This is an exciting time to join our team, as we are involved within the trust transformation, which provides the opportunity for the successful applicant to be involved with the development of this primary care service.

Enthusiasm, confidence and an ability to work flexibly and autonomously are essentials as well as a full driving license, as travel is required.

Interview date on Wednesday 6th July (subject to change), you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

About us
Working for your organisation
Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions, but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.
Job description
Job responsibilities

All our Linkworkers are currently working remotely from home and contacting clients using telephone/video-calling technology and we envisage that we will retain some of the efficiencies in practice that we have adopted over the past year. The applicant would be expected to hold a core professional qualification of Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist and have at least one years community experience.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

To provide specialist mental health advice and undertake assessments with frontline workers, where the mental health needs of the individual referred cannot be resolved by primary care non specialist workers..

With staff from other agencies, carry out mental health assessments of people, which will include a systemic formulation and advice on evidence based therapeutic interventions

To provide referrers and other professionals with written summaries of assessment, formulation and treatment outcomes

To participate in the locality model in Suffolk Wellbeing Service by undertaking direct work where clinically indicated using evidence based therapeutic interventions to improve mental wellbeing

Provide professional telephone advice for those working in Suffolk who require specialist advice and information on a wide range of mental health/wellbeing issues

Support the Trust response to external referrals. by duty work in SWS or by working in partnership with other NSFT clinical teams.

To maintain clinical and professional responsibility for a defined workload.

To liaise with colleagues and other professionals or agencies as required, including attending case conferences or planning meetings as part of the Multi agency working model

To promote clinical effectiveness by the use of clinical protocols and clinical audit.

To refer service users to alternative care where detailed assessment indicates a different level of service.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interviews are to be held on 3rd May 2022 however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• NMC/HCPC qualification

Experience
Essential

• Have experience of working within a community setting
• Relevant post reg experience

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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