Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 1 full time enthusiastic, motivated and caring Band 7 Advanced First Contact Mental Health Practitioner to work within Tadcaster and Rural Selby PCN's growing multidisciplinary team.
GPpractices have begun working together alongside community, mental health,social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in local areas to form Primary Care Networks or PCN's. PCN's signal a significant change in the way practices interact, not only with each other, but the wider health andsocial caresystem. This collaboration will enable care to be delivered to a defined patient population, in a different way to meet the needs of that population. The focus will be on prevention andpersonalisationof care, whilst working together to make the best use of shared resources.
Tadcaster and Rural Selby PCN, together with Tees Esk and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, are working together to transform our local community mental health services for people with significant mental health problems. New funding has enabled the PCN's and local GP surgeries, to create a multi-disciplinary team that will work in close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders. By working co-operatively, we will be able to provide meaningful support for people with mental health difficulties in a way that meets their needs closer to their communities and their homes.
NMC Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers (England), HCPC Occupational Therapists encouraged to apply.
Main duties of the job
You will develop close working relationships with all our Clinical staff including our existing Mental Health Practitioner and become a valued member of the Primary Care Team, collaborating with other professionals both internal to and external from the PCN.
Your role will involve offering specialist mental health advice and providing expert clinical care for people with a range of mental health needs, ensuring that those with serious mental illness do not fall between gaps in services. You will improve access by being ad 'advanced first contact mental health worker', undertaking triage, assessments, brief interventions, and reviews. You will contribute networking and navigation expertise, enabling access to a range of appropriate mental health support across the community system. You will ensure that, once assessed, each person receives the best possible care in the right place at the right time by the right supporting service.
About us
Tadcaster and Rural Selby PCNlooks after a population of 28,290 people from around the town of Tadcaster and villages of Sherburn in Elmet, South Milford, Micklefield and Thorpe Willoughby.The PCN is made up of three surgeries: South Milford Surgery, Sherburn Group Practice and Tadcaster Medical Centre. The PCN is working closely with partners across the locality including Selby District Council, North Yorkshire County Council, voluntary sector colleagues, community services, York Hospital, and Tees Esk and Wear Valley Mental Health Foundation Trust. These partnerships are vital to ensure that we work together to put our communities at the heart of everything that we do, improving our services together.
You will work in an ambitious but compassionate and friendly team of professionals in various additional roles created to enhance our general practice. The successful candidate will be well supported and will work autonomously and have day to day responsibility for their clinics and workload.
Primary Care experience is not essential; however, a good understanding of how Primary Care works would be beneficial. We would welcome enthusiastic innovators with a strong desire to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients and have the motivation and flexibility to help develop the services as the team evolves to meet the needs of the population.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a new, exciting and innovative post to support the needs of the local population living with a wide range of mental health difficulties. The role holder will fulfil a first contact specialist mental health role within GP Practices across the Primary Care Network (PCN), seeing patients who would otherwise have traditionally seen a GP. Within the primary care setting, the role holder will work in a collaborative and multi-agency way. This will contribute to the safe and effective day to day operation of the PCN and the efficient and timely management of clinical enquiries and decision-making.
The role will offer expertise in networking and navigation to promote ease of access to a range of specialist mental health support services. This ensures that each person, once assessed, receives the best possible care in the right place at the right time and by the right supporting service.
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, patients homes and other primary care settings. This will include providing clinical advice to GPs such as specialist opinion or prescribing support (within the parameters of the Non-medical prescribing/NMP framework) and providing supervision and oversight of First Contact Mental Health Practitioners.
You will be a non-medical prescriber or be willing to study towards this accreditation. Experience of cognitive behavioural therapy would be advantageous.
Clinical Partnership:
To maintain a specialist caseload of complex primary care cases, acting as a specialist advisor to GPs, fulfilling a pathway management function and providing short term interventions and support, in collaboration with GPs and other practice based mental health workers. To ensure that the caseload is well managed, and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards.
You will assume an active leadership role in the establishment of partnerships and networks with key stakeholders across the PCN and the wider mental health care system. To offer specialist advice to, or obtain advice for, the Primary Care Team on appropriate interventions and on-going patient care management.
To lead on the creation and development of links and a culture of partnership between Primary Care Teams and Mental Health Services, promoting clear communication and access to specialist knowledge and advice.
To take a leading role in the facilitation of joint working relationships across PCN, Secondary Care providers, and the Voluntary Care Sector to increase the range of services/interventions available to the communities served.
To facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing clinical advice and clinical supervision to practice based First Contact Mental Health Practitioners and other practice staff as appropriate, including other less experienced practice based mental health workers and students.
To provide specialist clinical advice, consultation, and support to other care providers within primary, secondary, voluntary and statutory services as required.
To attend PCN meetings and work with PCN members to develop and implement joint governance and clinical multidisciplinary forums.
To assume a leadership role and responsibility within the existing Mental Health multidisciplinary (MDT) meetings across the PCN.
To promote, develop and manage clear links, pathways and information sharing processes between existing services, and when appropriate, advise the GPs on alternative approaches to improve case management.
To provide support, education and guidance of common mental health problems and their management to colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team(s), so they develop their skills and confidence in assessment and treatment of mental health needs.
To collate and organise contemporaneous information about opportunities and resources in the local area which may be of benefit to clients referred to the service (e.g. voluntary and community organisations, educational and recreational opportunities).
To facilitate sign posting to other appropriate services and occasionally undertake very short-term interventions for clients with mild to moderate mental health difficulties (average length of time expected to be 6 weeks). Working alongside the PCN staff, which could include a care coordination team and social prescribing link worker.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, providing brief, time-limited therapeutic interventions in GP surgeries, patients homes and other primary care settings.
To ensure systems/pathways are in place to enable smooth transition between primary care and secondary mental health services.
To work closely with Primary Care Network, GPs and Social Prescribers/other practice-based mental health workers within the locality regarding the mental health needs of their adult practice population.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a new, exciting and innovative post to support the needs of the local population living with a wide range of mental health difficulties. The role holder will fulfil a first contact specialist mental health role within GP Practices across the Primary Care Network (PCN), seeing patients who would otherwise have traditionally seen a GP. Within the primary care setting, the role holder will work in a collaborative and multi-agency way. This will contribute to the safe and effective day to day operation of the PCN and the efficient and timely management of clinical enquiries and decision-making.
The role will offer expertise in networking and navigation to promote ease of access to a range of specialist mental health support services. This ensures that each person, once assessed, receives the best possible care in the right place at the right time and by the right supporting service.
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, patients homes and other primary care settings. This will include providing clinical advice to GPs such as specialist opinion or prescribing support (within the parameters of the Non-medical prescribing/NMP framework) and providing supervision and oversight of First Contact Mental Health Practitioners.
You will be a non-medical prescriber or be willing to study towards this accreditation. Experience of cognitive behavioural therapy would be advantageous.
Clinical Partnership:
To maintain a specialist caseload of complex primary care cases, acting as a specialist advisor to GPs, fulfilling a pathway management function and providing short term interventions and support, in collaboration with GPs and other practice based mental health workers. To ensure that the caseload is well managed, and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards.
You will assume an active leadership role in the establishment of partnerships and networks with key stakeholders across the PCN and the wider mental health care system. To offer specialist advice to, or obtain advice for, the Primary Care Team on appropriate interventions and on-going patient care management.
To lead on the creation and development of links and a culture of partnership between Primary Care Teams and Mental Health Services, promoting clear communication and access to specialist knowledge and advice.
To take a leading role in the facilitation of joint working relationships across PCN, Secondary Care providers, and the Voluntary Care Sector to increase the range of services/interventions available to the communities served.
To facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing clinical advice and clinical supervision to practice based First Contact Mental Health Practitioners and other practice staff as appropriate, including other less experienced practice based mental health workers and students.
To provide specialist clinical advice, consultation, and support to other care providers within primary, secondary, voluntary and statutory services as required.
To attend PCN meetings and work with PCN members to develop and implement joint governance and clinical multidisciplinary forums.
To assume a leadership role and responsibility within the existing Mental Health multidisciplinary (MDT) meetings across the PCN.
To promote, develop and manage clear links, pathways and information sharing processes between existing services, and when appropriate, advise the GPs on alternative approaches to improve case management.
To provide support, education and guidance of common mental health problems and their management to colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team(s), so they develop their skills and confidence in assessment and treatment of mental health needs.
To collate and organise contemporaneous information about opportunities and resources in the local area which may be of benefit to clients referred to the service (e.g. voluntary and community organisations, educational and recreational opportunities).
To facilitate sign posting to other appropriate services and occasionally undertake very short-term interventions for clients with mild to moderate mental health difficulties (average length of time expected to be 6 weeks). Working alongside the PCN staff, which could include a care coordination team and social prescribing link worker.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, providing brief, time-limited therapeutic interventions in GP surgeries, patients homes and other primary care settings.
To ensure systems/pathways are in place to enable smooth transition between primary care and secondary mental health services.
To work closely with Primary Care Network, GPs and Social Prescribers/other practice-based mental health workers within the locality regarding the mental health needs of their adult practice population.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration, NMC registration or Social Work England Registration
- Ability to evidence Continuing Professional Development since registration
- Certificate in mentoring, teaching & assessing in clinical practice as appropriate to own profession
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Leadership or management qualification
- Clinical Supervisor.
Desirable
- NMP (or willing to work towards within an agreed timescale)
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Demonstrable leadership or management experience in a senior clinical role
- Providing clinical supervision
- Mentoring students on practice placement experience
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Quality improvement activities
Desirable
- Experience working in a multiagency setting
- Experience working in primary care
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Ability to evidence an advanced level of clinical competence in one area of specialty practice
- Knowledge of Stepped Care model
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Understanding of the physical healthcare needs and impact of patients with a LD or mental health problem
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of delivering psycho-social interventions and approaches
- Contemporaneous knowledge and understanding of recent health and social care policy guidance and implications on practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration, NMC registration or Social Work England Registration
- Ability to evidence Continuing Professional Development since registration
- Certificate in mentoring, teaching & assessing in clinical practice as appropriate to own profession
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Leadership or management qualification
- Clinical Supervisor.
Desirable
- NMP (or willing to work towards within an agreed timescale)
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community setting
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Demonstrable leadership or management experience in a senior clinical role
- Providing clinical supervision
- Mentoring students on practice placement experience
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Quality improvement activities
Desirable
- Experience working in a multiagency setting
- Experience working in primary care
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Ability to evidence an advanced level of clinical competence in one area of specialty practice
- Knowledge of Stepped Care model
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Understanding of the physical healthcare needs and impact of patients with a LD or mental health problem
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of delivering psycho-social interventions and approaches
- Contemporaneous knowledge and understanding of recent health and social care policy guidance and implications on practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tadcaster & Rural Selby Primary Care Network
Tadcaster & Rural Selby
Tadcaster
LS24 8HD
Employer's website
https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
