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Senior Community MH Practitioner - Primary Care Transformation

Employer
Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Harrogate
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 pro rata, per annum
Closing date
28 Nov 2024
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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for 2Community Mental Health Practitioners to work within Primary Care Networks (PCN) and GP practices and secondary care (Ripon Integrated Community Team).

The focus or partner agencies is on prevention and personalisation of care, whilst working together to make the best use of shared resources.

The successful post-holder will work in partnership with practice colleagues and the secondary care integrated community team in joining an ambitiouslocality network that is committed to developing a strong, caring, and compassionate multidisciplinary workforce.

As a valued team member, your role will involve offering specialist mental health advice for people with a range of mental health needs, ensuring that those with mental illness do not fall between gaps in services.

You will also contribute to safe and effective transitions in care between Adult Mental Health services. You will improve access, undertaking triage, assessments, brief interventions, and reviews within primary and secondary care. As this is a newly developed role aligned to transforming mental health services, you will have a key role working into the new community hubs as they develop. You will contribute to networking and navigation expertise, enabling access to a range of appropriate mental health support across the community system.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team. They will be professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking initial assessment with signposting to appropriate services, or providing time-limited psycho-social therapeutic interventions directly, in e.g. GP surgeries, patient's homes and other care settings. This will include providing clinical advice to GPs such as specialist opinion.

In line with the principles of community mental health transformation you will develop links and foster a culture of 'partnership' between Primary Care Teams Voluntary Care Sector and Mental Health Services.

If you are a qualified Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker, with a determination for supporting local people with mental health problems and their families, and are looking for an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the development of an innovative and new way of working - then we look forward to hearing from you!

You will be expected to be on the duty responder rota and work closely with all members of the MDT.

Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

About us

The most important way we will get there is by living the values all of the time:
  • We are respectful
  • We are compassionate
  • We are responsible

We are committed to three big goals:
  • To co-create a great experience for our patients, carers and families.
  • To co-create a great experience for our colleagues
  • To be a great partner

Your kindness and care for the people in our region makes such a big difference, to so many.

We're here to nurture your talent, and give you all the support we possibly can.

We're here to empower you, trust you, and make sure youfeel it.

When we get the balance right, the mental health of our workforce, and our region, will be in a better place.

Ripon and Masham Primary Care Networkcomprises of 4 practices, North House, Ripon Spa, Dr Akester & Partners and Dr Ingram and Partners with 3 of these based in the small city of Ripon and 1 in the nearby market town of Masham. They support the mixed patient group across both the urban and rural settings and are a tightknit PCN with close working relationships between the practices including the shared pharmacy team, social prescribers, First contact physiotherapists and grown shared admin functions.

We would welcome enthusiastic innovators who are willing to develop this role and make the service the very best it can be for local people. We want individuals able to work systemically across the local community system to support people holistically.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description, person specification and the details contained within the advert for to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.

The attached example job plan (this will be subject to change as this is a new role that successful applicants can help to develop)

Additional contact details :-Lena Knowles: Modern Matron

Tel: 07950402275

Lee Bradley: Harrogate Hambleton & Richmondshire Service Manager

email: leebradley@nhs.net

Tel: 01423 852000

Andrew Knox: Operational Transformation Service Manager NYYS

andrew.knox1@nhs.net

07795801531

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Current professional registration with an approved professional body.
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
  • 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.
  • Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
  • Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)


Desirable

  • Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
  • Leadership or management qualification


Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment
  • Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary team


Desirable

  • Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment.
  • Leadership or management experience


Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
  • Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
  • Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.


Skills

Essential

  • Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
  • Experience and evidence of mental health triage, assessment and supporting connecting people across service providers


Personal Atributes and Other

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need.
  • Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
  • Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision


Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Windsor House

Cornwall Road

Harrogate

HG1 2PW

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

346-NYA-119-24-B

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