Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Allied Healthcare professional to join our team in North Somerset. In a great location not far from Weston Super Mare beach, free parking and flexible working including some home working days.
This post sits within the community primary care team and will afford rapid access to credible specialist mental health expertise for GPs, Primary Care staff and other referring agents who are requiring support and expert advice on meeting the mental health needs of the people within their caseloads.
You will have the opportunity to rotate into the innovative Mental Health Integrated Team (MINT) in conjunction with the community mental health framework. MINT has been developed to reinvent how we provide people with the wrap-around care and support they need, to address poor physical and mental health. The Primary Care Liaison Service will play a key role in supporting the MINTs to ensure that when referred, people are able to access the right support to achieve their personal goals by asking them ‘what matters to you?’
This will ensure that patients in Primary Care have their mental health needs more clearly assessed, defined, cared for, and treated by Primary Care Health Care Professionals and that the pathways to best meet someone’s needs are optimized.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will prioritise assessments based on clinical need and risk, making evidence-based recommendations for care and treatment within and across multiple care pathways. To rotate through varied roles such as frontline assessment, telephone triage, duty working, and MINT working.
A significant proportion of the role will involve working in conjunction with Primary Care colleagues to identify care and treatment options which enable service users to remain within their existing support/care pathways and maintain their community tenure.
The Primary Care Liaison team will provide an accessible specialist clinical consultation service for GPs and Primary Care colleagues, increasing awareness and providing education and training for this group to improve access to and understanding of the service.
The post holder will maintain close working relationships with Recovery and Intensive services, Community Mental Health Teams. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours; we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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