Mental Health Lead

2 weeks ago


Dewsbury, Kirklees, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

Overview:
Mental Health Lead is an exciting newly created role to support the Kirklees service.


Key responsibilities include identifying and supporting people who have co-existing mental health and substance misuse needs, enabling access to mental health treatment.


The role will work across the system to develop and improve pathways to better meet the needs of people who use substances who need mental health support.


Responsibilities:

The role is part of the Families and Safeguarding Project, led by our Senior Social Worker, and will bring specialist mental health knowledge and skills to:

  • Provide specialist assessment which includes mental capacity assessments, assessment of needs in MH crisis (working closely with and referring into SPA) and perform the role of a 'trusted 'assessor' within the service in order to facilitate access to community mental health support.
  • Lead on Mental Health MDT's and provide advice and guidance to all teams including suitability for referrals into Dual Diagnosis and other CMHT services.
  • Provide bespoke mental health and substance misuse interventions to people on a substance misuse caseload who are not yet able to access community mental health treatment, bridging the gap between services and ensuring continual advocacy to link into community MH treatment.
  • Inreach into local mental health inpatient wards to cofacilitate comprehensive assessment of needs, safe and effective discharge planning and to engage in integrated community treatment and support alongside the appropriate multiagency stakeholders.
  • Develop and delivery bespoke mental health and substance misuse training packages for our teams and system partners (e.g. SWYFT, VCSE) to support professionals to increase their knowledge and awareness.


This is a fantastic new role for a skilled professional to make an impact in our caring and supportive team.

We're at the start of our new 10 year contract and implemeting our exciting new model which includes Psychology, Recovery Coaching, Recovery Housing and much more.



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