Woodsley and Holt Park PCN Mental Health Link Worker
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,530.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26530.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS14 1HX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | U0053-25-0023 |
Summary
Main Tasks To promote the service within GP practices, developing close working relationships with the teams within practices and the Primary Care Network To provide a telephone based mental health service to patients with low level mental health issues, including depression and anxiety. To appropriately risk assess patients to minimise harm and identify harm reduction where this is needed. To complete referrals and signpost to specialist support quickly and effectively where necessary. To provide short term interventions with 4 to 5 appointments to support patients whilst they wait to access appropriate specialist provision. To enable patients to manage their own mental and emotional health by using coping strategies and challenging unhelpful behaviour patterns To develop collaborative support plans with individuals which promote choice and complement any medical treatment or advice. To identify any barriers to people accessing services and activities and work with individuals to overcome these. To use a range of techniques and interventions to support people, including those with long term conditions, to self-manage their health and encourage behavioural and lifestyle change. To facilitate access to recommended community-based interventions and programmes of activity that benefit health and wellbeing To monitor and record contacts and outcomes within clinical systems To build networks with local community resources such as activities and services that may have an impact on mental health and wellbeing and support individuals to access these To develop multi-agency working across communities and voluntary and statutory organisations to improve health and address health inequality To liaise with other professionals as appropriate To undertake clinical supervision to ensure safe therapeutic practice.