Mental Health Practitioner Swan PCN

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Across Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW) we have launched our plan to transform experiences in adult mental health in a programme called 'No Wrong Door'. This is a new and innovative service led by the local NHS, councils, Public Health, GPs, voluntary and community partners and people with lived experience of mental illness.

Southern Health NHS Trust will be working with Primary Care Networks, known as PCNs, to develop teams of health and care professionals including wellbeing practitioners, nurses, experts in psychology and psychiatry, social workers, and education and employment support workers.

The Swan Medical Group is one practice but consists of four GP surgeries; The Swan Surgery in Petersfield, Liphook Village Surgery and Liphook & Liss surgeries in Hampshire.

This is a new and exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to join our already established team of Social Prescribers and to help develop our Health and Wellbeing team.

We are a supportive and forward-thinking practice with an excellent clinical team. We are also a training practice for doctors and are supportive of personal development & ongoing training for all staff.

Swan Medical Group is proud to have achieved an 'Outstanding' rating in our recent CQC inspection and we aspire to be a local leader in delivering exceptional integrated healthcare. If you are keen to develop your career and work at an outstanding level, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This is a new role working collaboratively across primary and secondary care, the role will therefore be subject to change as it develops.

To work closely with secondary mental health and primary care and ensure good communication between services.

To champion a culture based on principles of recovery, choice and personalised care, providing a role model to those who the practitioner works with.

The post holder will also provide some direct clinical care within the PCN. It will provide support to staff within the Primary Care Network and be engaged within the local community mental health team.

*To work with Primary Care stakeholders in South East area to support and help deliver the transformation work around "No wrong door".

*To be able to deliver therapeutic interventions to service users whose immediate needs may need help in a primary care setting.

*To support the planning and coordination of service users' care in primary care, including those on the SMI list liaising with teams and agencies as required. To work on signposting to appropriate agencies for ongoing support.

*To discuss primary care referrals that require referral to secondary mental health care prior to making a referral

*To work closely with the secondary care mental health practitioner to provide a link between primary care services and secondary care for the Mental Health Team.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Date posted

24 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-PSE-C-1103A

Job locations

Swan Surgery

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3AB

Job description

Job responsibilities

*To participate in CMHT MDT meetings and MDT within a Primary care setting as required.

*Communicating service user needs and be able to assist in prioritizing the allocation of workload.

*To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review and adjust in line with the service user's needs.

*To work in collaboration with patients as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.

*To assess, coordinate and broker the needs of services users in primary care and other relevant agencies in partnership with the service user.

*To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agree further action.

*To develop, with others, measures for service standards, including benchmarking, and to identify areas for potential service improvement.

*To promote a culture in which there is a positive approach to managing risk, working closely with other senior clinicians, including medical staff, to ensure this occurs.

*To understand the range of risks potentially faced by the service user group.

*To work in partnership with others to identify and assess the nature, location and seriousness of the particular risks.