Primary Care Mental Health First Contact Practitioner
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,407.00 to £34,581.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28407.00 - £34581.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Grantham, NG31 9DF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9274-24-0350 |
Summary
Mental Health Practitioners working in PCNs take on a first contact role providing new expertise and increased capacity to general practice and providing patients with faster access to the right care. The role will involve liaison with practice clinicians, as well as liaison with secondary care, social workers and voluntary sector staff, where appropriate, and making best use of third sector and other community opportunities for promotion of patient wellbeing and maintenance of mental health. You will support the provision of care navigation and active signposting, offering information to people about services, using local resource directories and local knowledge You will carry out assigned tasks, including initial triage and administrative duties as delegated by the professional in charge. To ensure delivery of a person-centered approach, What matters to me to all patients that enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological and social wellbeing. Being an advocate for the patient in ensuring they receive appropriate timely care. Act as a specialist practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates a specialist knowledge base and specialist clinical skills and competencies. You will ensure that all new referrals are identified in a timely response, and information shared with appropriate parties and you will update the service user records contemporaneously on the identified IT systems. Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home / community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission Accountable for planning and evaluating the work carried out by self-managing and prioritising a caseload of patients according to their health status, who are referred by various agencies including GP, hospital, case managers, social care, and independent sector promoting self-care, self-management and independent living. Contribute to the work carried out by Neighbourhood colleagues from a MH perspective. Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care. Referral on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing. Facilitate, participate and optimises case conferences / multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings. Establishes and maintains excellent trusted and credible relationships with individuals and groups