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Mental Health Link Worker
NHS AfC: Band 7
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This role will involve a number of elements which will support the management of people with mental health conditions in primary care, who may be new or known previously to secondary care mental health services.
The post holder will provide assessments, formulation and delivery of psychological intervention in primary care, secondary to this, supporting access to Community Mental Health Teams or other services such as Third Sector and IAPT where needs can be better met by these services. The post holder would be expected to work closely with experts by experience, local communities and will also be involved in raising the awareness of mental health difficulties in the general population.
The post holder will contribute to the provision of psychological interventions in the PCN, which will be under the direction of a qualified clinical psychologist who will retain clinical responsibility for clinical work carried out.
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You will be part of the Primary Care MDT team assisting case reviews, triage of those presenting with mental health needs, support GPs with referring clients to MH Services as appropriate and ensure the delivery of physical health checks. For those with SMI and where applicable to the skilled professional, the post holder will support antipsychotic medication management. You'll be embedded within a PCN working with several GP surgeries and within the local Community Hub to enable safe transfers of care:
- Facilitate people with long term mental health conditions to access mental health services and transfers of care back to their GP from Community Hub teams.
- Screen, Triage and deliver short term interventions based on clients’ needs and enable access to therapeutic activities working closely with voluntary, Community and third sector organisations.
- Provide an enhanced level of support to PC clinicians through advice and training to improve skills and capacity in responding to the needs of people with MH conditions discharged back to them
- Work within an agreed process for safe transfer of care from Community Mental Health Hubs to GPs as well as and rapid re-referral, when appropriate
- Ensure that patients transfer to their GP under this process have good clinical outcomes
- Ensure that patients transfers to their GPs under this process have access to appropriate advice, advocacy, vocational support to access social networks
- Ensure that the Public Sector Equalities Duty is met
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- Maintain and provide service activity data/statistical information as required inc CIS Audit of Mental Health Patients
- Demonstrate respect, empathy and understanding of all patients and colleagues within the service, in accordance with the Trust policy for promotion of equal opportunities and cultural awareness.
- Adhere to all Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust policies e.g. Human Resources policy, Health and Safety Policy, all Clinical Policies and Procedures
- There is an expectation to work flexibly across a range of bases throughout the working week, including Trust buildings and GP surgerie
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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MH Link Worker will
- work with patients to support shared decision-making about self-management; facilitate onward access to treatment services; and provide brief psychological interventions, where qualified to do so and where appropriate.
- Supervise and oversee the triage function within the mental health teams, being a point of reference for difficult decisions the triage team need to make on a daily basis, and supervising members of the triage team (where dedicated triage teams are the model) and ensuring the integration of the triage process as a part of the team’s function.
- work closely with other PCN-based roles to help address the potential range of biopsychosocial needs of patients with mental health problems. E.g. PCN clinical pharmacists for medication reviews, and social prescribing link workers for access to community-based support.
- operate without the need for formal referral from GPs, including accepting some direct bookings where appropriate, subject to agreement on volumes and the mechanism of booking between the PCN and the provider.
- be supported through the local Community Hub teams by robust clinical governance structures to maintain quality and safety, including supervision where appropriate.
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Qualifications and Training
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Professional qualification in mental health (Mental Health Nursing (RMN); Chartered Psychologist Occupational Therapy, Social Work (must have HCPC registration); Pharmacist
- • Attained at least Level 2 Maths and English (equivalent to GCSE grade 9-4 (A*-C))
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Educated to degree or Diploma level with other courses relevant to primary care mental health services e.g. CBT, Brief Solution Focussed Therapy etc.
- • RGN/physical health qualification
- • Evidence of recent and on-going relevant further professional development
- • Attendance at specialist short courses relevant to the post (e.g. MBT or DBT, Trauma Informed Care, Group Approaches)
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Experience of work in the NHS, PCNs or outreach work, or local engagement work (e.g. youth worker, mentoring, peer support etc.), experience of working in voluntary sector, working in community groups.
- • Work with client groups with serious mental health problems:• mental health care and/or • working with carers and/or • delivering therapeutic group interventions and/or • working in MDTs and/or
- • audit, evaluation or research
- • Work in multi-cultural settings
- • Mental health issues as a service user or carer
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Evidence of experience in a Band 6 position or equivalent
- • Other relevant post registration experience
- • Work with interpreters
- • Work with behaviours that challenge services
- • Work with people with complex emotional needs (personality disorder)
- • Conducting service-related research and or audit experience
- • Experience of teaching/training in a formal or informal setting
- • Experience of working in a primary care setting/ social care/ voluntary sector
- • Experience of supervising junior staff within own and/or other disciplines
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Basic understanding of health care systems and structures: staffing, roles and responsibilities, the role of hospitals, primary care and community care
- • Team/self-management and organisation skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
- • Knowledge of counselling skills/cognitive behavioural skills, psychosocial interventions
- • Knowledge of recovery approaches as used with those with mental health conditions
- • Work with people from a wide range of backgrounds
- • Contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others
- • Manage effectively exposure to distressing/highly emotional circumstances
- • Manage effectively verbal aggression from service users, families, etc. and the risk of physical aggression
- • Respectful and collaborative approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
- • Able to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally
- • Able to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally
- • Assessment and treatment of Deliberate Self Harm
- • Risk assessment/management and crisis intervention skills
- • Use of psychosocial assessment methods
- • Higher level communication skills, both written and oral
- • Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options, with senior clinical support/supervision
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
- • Specialist knowledge of mental health conditions as well as their relationship to physical disorders
Operational
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Computer literate
- • Being able to work flexibly across local environments
- • Awareness of diversity of cultural norms and being able to respond to this appropriately
- • Concentrate intensely for a substantial proportion of working time, during client contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- • Use IT packages – word processing, e-mail and internet, Excel and Access
- • Ability to use or learn NHS clinical systems
- • Work cross-culturally and/or in different languages
- • Work to professional guidelines
- • Accept accountability for own work, and of working towards defined results
- • Plan, organise and prioritise own workload
- • Record and report on clinical information as required
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Experience in using SystmOne
Personal Qualities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Ability to work effectively, timely and independently
- • Ability to frequently work under pressure and maintain intense concentration, particularly in unpredictable situations where there will be exposure to highly distressed and/or disturbed patients, often exhibiting challenging behaviours and the risk of physical violence
- • Ability to meet deadlines
- • Commitment to equal opportunities
- • Ability to accept constructive feedback
- • Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence when required.
- • Exercise initiative, flexibility and tact and self-awareness
- • Willing to use peer and group supervision creatively
- • Be able to work flexibly if required
- • Be aware of the limitations in your competencies and seek appropriate senior advice and leadership.
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Personal experience of a mental health condition
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Dean Ramjeet
- Teitl y swydd
- Service Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07825 587964
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
For further information or to discuss these posts please speak to Dean Ramjeet [email protected] or Garikayi Teera Deputy Borough Director [email protected]
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- Cyfeiriad
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Argo House 180 Kilburn Park Road
London
NW6 5FA
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