Job summary
We are currently seeking 1 qualified Nurses, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker to join our Primary Care Mental Health service covering the areas of Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield.
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.
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.
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
Essential
- Nursing/ Socail work or OT
- Evidence of post reg CPD
Desirable
- Completion of mentoriship or equivalent
- Non medical prescribing qualification
Experience and Attainments
Essential
- Min, 1 year post reg experience
- Experience of working with people with severe mental ill health
- Experience of workng community /primary care
- Experience of workng consultativley with professionals
- Experience of providing assessment and clinical interventions
Desirable
- Experience of supervising staff
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Excellent written and oral communcaation skills
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Estalblsh relationships with service users and carers
- Understanding of primary care mental health
- Partership working with other agencies
Analytical skills
Essential
- Able to work autonomously in keeping with registratiin requirements and Trust policy
Physical skills
Essential
- Car driver/access to car
- IT literacy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing/ Socail work or OT
- Evidence of post reg CPD
Desirable
- Completion of mentoriship or equivalent
- Non medical prescribing qualification
Experience and Attainments
Essential
- Min, 1 year post reg experience
- Experience of working with people with severe mental ill health
- Experience of workng community /primary care
- Experience of workng consultativley with professionals
- Experience of providing assessment and clinical interventions
Desirable
- Experience of supervising staff
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Excellent written and oral communcaation skills
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Estalblsh relationships with service users and carers
- Understanding of primary care mental health
- Partership working with other agencies
Analytical skills
Essential
- Able to work autonomously in keeping with registratiin requirements and Trust policy
Physical skills
Essential
- Car driver/access to car
- IT literacy
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
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).
