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Primary Care Mental Health Linkworker
5 months ago
Are you an experienced and motivated mental health professional looking for a new challenge in a primary care setting? Do you have enhanced skills in assessment and brief interventions? Can you empower people to make choices about their own treatment and communicate effectively with a wide range of professionals?
If you answer ‘yes’ to all these questions and you would relish the opportunity to be at the forefront of new developments in primary care mental health, then being a Mental Health Link Worker could be the perfect opportunity for you
We are looking for an experienced mental health professional to join our friendly, and supportive Link Worker team which is part of the Primary Care Network Mental Health Teams (PCNMHT’s) covering East Suffolk. The team provides a point of access into mental services for people experiencing a wide range of mild-moderate mental health problems in primary care. Link Workers are usually based in GP surgeries across the county and offer a face-to-face/telephone assessments and brief interventions for patients in primary care. Our base sites are located in Ipswich. We currently have Link Worker vacancies at two locations in East Ipswich PCN and East Suffolk PCN.
Applicants are expected to hold a core professional qualification (Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist) and should have at least one year’s community experience.
As a Mental Health Link worker, you will be working collaboratively with people aged 16 and above, presenting with a range of mental health needs within a primary care environment. The post holder requires to carry out mental health assessments, identify appropriate treatment pathways depending on the persons needs, offer brief interventions and/or signpost to the most suitable service provider. Mental Health Link Worker’s work alongside GP's, and other primary care staff, and liaise with colleagues from multiple sectors, both statutory and non-statutory, to provide expert advice and education in accordance with evidence based NICE guidance.
This is an exciting time to join our team, as we are involved within the Trust transformation, which provides the opportunity for the successful applicant to be involved with the development of this primary care service.
Enthusiasm, confidence and an ability to work flexibly and autonomously are essentials as well as a full driving license, as travel is required.
Working for your organisation
**Benefits**:
**Benefits included with this role are**:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY
NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions, but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.
Clinical
- To provide specialist mental health advice and undertake assessments with frontline workers, where the mental health needs of the individual referred cannot be resolved by primary care non specialist workers..
- With staff from other agencies, carry out mental health assessments of people, which will include a systemic formulation and advice on evidence based therapeutic interventions
- To provide referrers and other professionals with written summaries of assessment, formulation and treatment outcomes
- To participate in the locality model by undertaking direct work where clinically indicated using evidence based therapeutic interventions to improve mental wellbeing
- Provide professional telephone advice for those working in Suffolk who require specialist advice and information on a wide range of mental health/wellbeing issues
- Support the Trust response to external referrals. by working in partnership with other NSFT clinical teams.
- To maintain clinical and professional responsibility for a defined workload.
- To liaise with colleagues and other professionals or agencies as required, including attending case conferences or planning meetings as part of the Multi agency working model
- To promote clinical effectiveness by the use of clinical protocols and clinical audit.
- To refer service users to alternative care where detailed assessment indicates a different level of service.
