Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as the Team Leader for Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) Neighbourhood 2. We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner: nurse, social worker or occupational therapist.
The team is a diverse MDT; we offer teaching sessions, space for reflective practice and an opportunity to be a champion in your chosen areas.
Responsibilities
* Lead and co-ordinate the work of an integrated neighbourhood Primary Care Mental Health Team, ensuring the provision of safe, effective, high-quality community services in line with statutory requirements and local policies.
* Directly supervise a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team of health, social care and voluntary sector professionals operating from a community-based site.
* Ensure the efficient triage, assessment and allocation of referrals.
* Maintain an overview of the safe and effective work of the team, ensuring the continuous flow of service-users through the system.
* Enhance liaison with GP practices to maximise new and growing links and collaborative working.
* Oversee safe working practices and effective agile working directives for the team as a whole.
About PCMHT
The PCMHT service offers a wide range of medical, psychosocial and psychological evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines. PCMHT also offers culturally sensitive approaches appropriate for the diverse population which it serves.
The teams are the single point of access for most sources of referrals which they review, triage and assess as indicated. There is also a large advice and consultation function to colleagues in primary care, including advice and signposting.
Following assessment some patients will follow the clinical pathway requiring short term support focused on engagement and stabilization (EAS).
As part of the stepped care approach, the service also offers short term psychologically informed interventions and may provide a gateway to more specialist longer-term psychological therapies where indicated.
Contact / How to apply
For further details or informal visits contact:
Name: Claire Ferguson
Job title: Service Manager
Email: Claire.Ferguson@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone: 07969587558
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