Senior Screening & Assessment Clinician
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Job summary
If you're an experienced community mental health nurse, social worker, occupational therapist or psychological therapist, we're keen to support your career development with this exciting new post.
These are new roles created to help us deliver our plans to transform our community mental health services, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The transformation of our community mental health services will lead to truly integrated health and social care for adults in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey who have serious mental illness.
Our transformation plans are supported by £25m in funding and will mean the roll-out over the next three years of multi-disciplinary teams of experts working within the new Primary Care Networks and offering wraparound, holistic care to our service users and wider community. Our aim is to support the whole person as they live with, or recover from, mental illness and to offer them support with other challenges they may face, such as debt, relationship problems, housing, education or training. We will also focus resources on reaching those who currently face obstacles in getting the help they need.
Main duties of the job
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate the day to day running of the Assessment and Screening pathway within the Core Team, including screening new referrals and allocating these to the Band 6 Screener and overseeing the work of the Voluntary Care Sector workers.
- Complete telephone triages/screening for service users who are referred to our service, meeting the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the individual and their family, using research-based knowledge and skills to maintain the individual's identity.
- Work with community organisations, charities and voluntary care sectors across Haringey to improve access to Community Mental Health Services for residents from all communities across Haringey.
- Complete over the telephone risk assessment and management plans and where necessary, arrange home visit and face to assessments.
- Complete brief assessments including Dialog+ assessments
- To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients who do not meet the criteria for the Core Team and to sign post them safely to relevant partner agencies and services.
- Apply specialist clinical knowledge and experience to provide education for clients to develop a greater understanding of their mental health condition and working in a client centred way with clients to help develop their awareness of their condition, life skills and coping strategies.
About us
At Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Community and Mental Health Trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
The Trust's values are:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Being Positive
- Working together
By coming to work at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust you will be joining a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where youcan thrive and succeed.
Details
Date posted
31 October 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,178 to £55,492 a year Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
306-BEH-1086-A
Job locations
St. Ann’s Hospital
St. Ann’s Road
Tottenham
N15 3TH
Employer details
Employer name
Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Address
St. Ann’s Hospital
St. Ann’s Road
Tottenham
N15 3TH
Employer's website
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