Job summary
- Main area
- Primary Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-COMM-6284287-JB-B
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Johns Health Centre
- Town
- Twickenham
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 pro rata per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Primary Care Liaison Practitioner
Band 7
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Primary Care Liaison Practitioner in our Richmond Wellbeing Service.
The Richmond Wellbeing Service is committed to work in partnership with service users and their carers, as well as with other statutory and non-statutory services. Our aim is to provide strengths based and recovery orientated interventions in order to maximize the quality of life and wellbeing of service users.
The post holder will work exclusively within the Primary Care Liaison Team (PCL) in the London Borough of Richmond. The PCL team is one part of the Richmond Wellbeing Service, working alongside the psychological therapies team, provided within the IAPT Talking Therapies framework.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will promote clinical excellence and expertise in providing care for patients with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and support the delivery of an agreed and coherent, collaborative and co-produced care plan, in keeping with care pathways, operational policies and NICE guidelines. The post holder will deliver services to maximise engagement of service users and support them in achieving their recovery goals. The post holder will be involved in service development and implementation of the requirements of the NHS Long Term Plan and the National Service Framework for Mental Health Standard 2.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To promote clinical excellence and work within the framework of evidence based medicine and best practice.
- To liaise effectively and pro-actively with GP Practices, Integrated Recovery Hubs/Single Point of Access (SPA), and other voluntary organisations, creating positive working relationships and positive service experience for services user, carers and other professionals.
- To encourage and support service users’ and carers’ involvement in their care and treatment.
- To work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective communication with other team members, other professionals and members of the community.
- To ensure service users receive a timely and effective Primary Care Mental Health intervention, as agreed by pathways, protocols and NICE guidelines.
- To ensure referrals are processed appropriately.
- To deliver comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, diagnostic formulations and clinical reviews and clinical interventions with and for service users
- Offering medication reviews and advise to patients, carers and GP’s
- To ensure effective transfer of secondary care service users to Primary care, including service users on depot medication (Depot Enhanced Service). This transfer will be based on detailed clinical reviews and systematic analysis of patients’ needs which will be undertaken by the post holder.
- To support GPs and other professionals in primary care with assessing and treating patients by role modelling, facilitating, and training.
- To deliver consultation, advice and clinical supervision to other members of the clinical team regarding Primary Care service provision.
- To lead multi-disciplinary and multi-agency clinical meetings when required
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post qualification experience in relevant field in Mental Health
- Substantial experience of working autonomously and independently in community settings.
- Substantial experience in community caseload management and mental health liaison.
- Experience in working with diverse agencies in a complex environment
- Experience of working with primary care.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with chronic physical health conditions
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised mental health qualification in nursing, social work, occupational therapy or psychology
- Current Professional Registration
- Evidence of continual professional development
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in a psychological treatment modality
- Approved to prescribe medication
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide structured and focused liaison and consultation to other professionals
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Excellent time management skills
- Knowledge and understanding of mental health and co morbid chronic physical health issues in Primary Care
- Good knowledge of psychopharmacology
- Detailed knowledge of ICD-10 for mental disorders
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing about a range of complex issues
- Highly developed problem solving and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to use current IT systems and packages for data entry and analysis
- Ability to analyse and present data in meaningful way
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Horton
- Job title
- Primary Care Liaison Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07858682635
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