Mental Health Professional and Primary Care Liaison

1 month ago

Bridgwater, United Kingdom Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Somerset Foundation Trust are leading the way on breaking down the barriers to access Mental Health services. This provision seeks to widen access to patients that are experiencing mental health and emotional difficulties to ensure that everyone receives the right treatment at the right time.

This is a blended post that offers a new and exciting opportunity to work across what was traditionally seen as Primary Care and Secondary Care parts of mental health services. Both of these areas of the service are transforming and learning to work closely together and this post offers an opportunity to be a key part of those developments as the teams continues to come together as one larger service. This post will benefit from sitting within both existing teams, assisting ease of communication between colleagues and also smooth transfer of patients if indicated.

Part of the role will be directly involved in assessing patients referred from Primary care (this will include adults of working age and older adults), followed by identifying and facilitating appropriate support/treatment for them. For most people this will mean remaining within Primary Care - supported either by the Primary Care Liaison for brief psychological interventions, the Open Mental Health Alliance or by Talking Therapies. For some, with more complex needs, it will involve facilitating a smooth transfer into Somerset FT secondary mental health services.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone

The post holder will be involved in ensuring that patients in Primary Care have their mental health needs more clearly assessed, defined, cared for and treated by Primary Care Health Care Professionals. Also that the pathways to best meet someone’s mental health need are optimised. The post holder will be working closely with primary care and voluntary sector colleagues as part of the Somerset Open Mental Health Alliance.

The other part of the role will involve delivering a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for patients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. This will involve managing a defined caseload, with a focus on working with individuals who experience a complex range of needs and difficulties and supporting their significant others. Although this is traditionally understood as a keyworker role, and there will be some keyworker responsibilities, the roles within our team are changing and developing to better meet the needs of service users and may be more focused on achieving clearly identified goals and delivering evidence-based interventions within a brief timescale.

For both parts of the role the post holder will act as a key member of the wider multi-disciplinary team. They will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence-based interventions using a collaborative, recovery focused approach and will be skilled at positive risk management. The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the teams, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Team Manager, and participate in team and service development and evaluation. Liaison with a wide range of agencies is central to the role.

Alongside these core skills, you may be interested in offering psychological interventions, from brief clinical interventions through to specific psychological therapies, such as CAT, CBT or DBT. In this case we can either enable you to utilize your existing skills in this area and/or we can offer the chance to train in these approaches. There will also be opportunities to develop skills in non-medical prescribing and other areas, as appropriate to your needs and interests.

The post holder must hold a full driving licence and have permanent access to own transport and have appropriate insurance.

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