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Senior primary care mental health practitioner

Harpenden
Mental health practitioner
Posted: 15 August
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Role We are excited to recruit to the role of Senior Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner (Band 7) in Hertfordshire’s Harpenden Health Primary Care Network (PCN) covering the following GP surgeries in the Harpenden area: The Elms Medical Practice Davenport House Surgery Village Surgery The role will involve travel between the PCN sites as well as travel to HPFT sites for things such as mandatory training. You will work alongside other clinicians within the PCN as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will need to be able to work autonomously to triage, assess, case manage and discharge a patient without referral to a GP where appropriate. You must be able to advise on medications, identify and intervene to meet social needs, order investigations and refer on to secondary care services where necessary. You will act as a first point of contact in primary care. You will accept referrals for triage via agreed routes within the PCN. You will offer rapid and autonomous ‘first contact’ assessment and promote early treatment by supporting people directly into appropriate mental health pathways across both the statutory and voluntary sectors and will provide short term interventions on the telephone, via video link options, at the surgery or in the persons home where appropriate. You will provide mental health assessment and brief interventions to service users in GP surgeries. Your tasks will include early triage, assessment, treatment, risk management, identifying and dealing with safeguarding concerns as well as contributing to case discussions and service-related meetings across the adult mental health primary care pathway ensuring good links with secondary care services. You will coordinate the time limited care of primary care-based service users delivering integrated care which takes account of social care needs. You will be someone who enjoys adapting and learning as you contribute to embedding this new role into primary care. You will also take a leading role for service innovation and development in primary care mental health. This could include projects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe and effective primary care mental health services and making a significant contribution to the development and leadership of mental health services within Primary Care Networks. You may be expected to conduct audits to help understand the efficacy of these roles. You will also take part in training other colleagues in subjects related to your field of expertise. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission. Our Family Of Over 4,000 Members Of Staff Provide Health And Social Care For People With Mental Ill Health, Physical Ill Health And Learning Disabilities Across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex And Norfolk, Delivering These Services Within The Community And Several Inpatient Settings. Everything Is Underpinned By Choice, Independence And Equality, With Our Trust Values Embedded Throughout Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ben Mahoney Job title: Clinical Matron Email address: benjamin.mahoney@nhs.net Telephone number: 07908 800 269 benjamin.mahoney@nhs.net

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