Skip to main content

This job has expired

Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Employer
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Ware
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,066 max £1,845)
Closing date
7 Feb 2023
We are currently seeking a full-time qualified Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker to join our Primary Care Mental Health service covering the areas of Hoddesdon, Ware and Hertford.

Successful applicants will facilitate clinics offering a mix of telephone and face to face consultations with service users within their designated GP surgeries. The role includes triaging and signposting service users to access the most appropriate service to support their mental health and wellbeing. This exciting development recognises that placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices will promote early assessment and treatment in a recovery focused way, therefore helping the service user to achieve the best outcomes.

Main duties of the job

This is a Band 6 mental health practitioner post. You will have a relevant professional qualification (nursing, social work, occupational therapy), and experience of working with service users with mental health needs. The post will generally be based within the primary care setting (GP surgeries). The practitioner will offer primary care mental health liaison support to GP surgeries within a designated hub of surgeries and will have the opportunity to support the development and implementation of this service. The service will provide support to those being referred for support and will also seek to support primary care practitioners in the transfer of service users from secondary care to primary care.

At HPFT we view our staff as our most important resource and offer:
  • A thorough induction to your role and team
  • A regular, good quality supervision
  • Access to Lead Nurse for your area promoting professional development
  • Arrange of developmental opportunities to support you to grow in your profession and your practice
  • The opportunity to apply to work flexibly so that you can balance your work with your life outside work


About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on...

Job description Job responsibilities

  • The role of the Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Practitioner will be to work across the interface between Primary Care and Mental Health Services to work alongside the service manager/s to facilitate mental health assessment in primary care and support GP's regarding decision making in relation to secondary care referrals, support transition of service users from the care of secondary mental health services back to Primary Care and to facilitate re-access where appropriate.
  • The post holder will provide consultation, support, education and problem-solving approaches to the Local Primary Care Teams particularly in the area of assessment and management of mental health problems in adults of working age.
  • The post holder will run clinics autonomously and will offer telephone and face to face consultations to service users within their GP surgeries.
  • The post holder will signpost service users to appropriate services and may occasionally undertake very short-term interventions for clients with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
  • The post holder will refer service users to community mental health teams if the service user meets the threshold for secondary care services.
  • The role is to strengthen access and to provide community triage for people who may need mental health services.
  • The post holder will ensure systems are in place to promote smooth pathways between primary care and secondary mental health services.
  • The post holder will work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
  • The post holder will work in partnership with Health and social care professionals from other agencies and organisations including GP's and Social Prescribers.
  • They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant to the Pathway/Protocols to include psycho-education, relevant aspects of social inclusion, Recovery and working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this.
  • The post holder will work to promote the safety and the wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.
  • The post holder will not have an individual case load, but will support the GP surgeries to manage a team case load.
  • To act within the appropriate professional code of conduct at all times.
  • All staff should comply with the Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.


Person Specification QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING Essential
  • Registered mental health professional appropriate to the job role (nursing, OT, SW)
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
  • Completion of Mentorship/preceptorship Course/ENB equivalent, or intention to complete
  • Non medical prescriber
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Essential
  • Minimum of one year post-registration experience
  • Previous experience of working in the community/primary care setting
  • Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health problems
  • Experience of supervising staff
  • Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
  • Experience of working consultatively with professionals
  • Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
  • Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
  • Experience of working within the CPA process
  • Experience of delivery teaching sessions to colleagues and professionals
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY Essential
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to communicate in a clear and unambiguous way
  • Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Ability to develop effective professional relationships with others
  • Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships
  • Establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any differences in communication
  • Develop own skills and knowledge and provide information to others to help their development
  • Ability to formulate community care plans, based on relevant models
  • Ability to maintain high standards of record -keeping, including accurate data entry and recording.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS Essential
  • Able to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals in accordance with professional, ethical guidelines and Trust policies.
  • Work within the spheres of own professional responsibilities and escalate clinical and operational concerns to senior clinical and operational management in a timely way as and when required


Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

367-EAN-6782

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert