Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Kirkby, L34 1PJ |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6166066/350-MHC6166066 |
Summary
If you are highly motivated and passionate about improving mental health and interested in working at the forefront of an innovative, collaboration with primary and secondary mental health care then this role may well be for you.
As part of the ongoing transformation of Mental Health service provision we are recruiting a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner post in Kirkby. These roles will be based directly within GP practices, providing a preventative and ‘hands on’ approach to supporting GPs in the provision of mental health care.
You will work as part of the primary care team, covering all the GP practices within a designated Primary Care Network, adopting a population health approach to ensure the needs of the community are met.
This role is an instrumental part of the wider community transformation programme and you will receive supervision and support from a Mersey Care Mental Health Lead covering the same geographical region as you. You will also receive day to day support from a Primary Care Lead within your designated Primary Care Network.
This is a brand new role and there is a requirement to be adaptable, creative, enthusiastic and dynamic. It is an exciting opportunity for innovative working across community providers to improve the quality of mental health services and address health inequalities. The role will evolve in accordance with the needs of the local population and your primary focus will be to ensure that GP practices are supported in the management of people who present to Primary Care with mental health difficulties.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning,
implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members carers and significant others.
To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for.
To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
To check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective
communications.
To give and receive accurate up-to-date information regarding service users’ care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the Trust.
To have accurate and up-to–date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
Please refer to attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024