Navigator / Senior Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago


Tameside, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Part-Time (22.5hours/Week), Band 6, Permanent member of staff, in to the role of Navigator/Senior Mental Health Practitioner based within NHS Tameside and Glossop Talking Therapies - (IAPT) Improving Access to Psychological Therapy Service.

The primary function of the Navigator is to steer referrals coming into, and where appropriate (following MDT discussion / discussion with the referrer) out of the service.

The successful applicant will attend daily multi disciplinary team meetings and assist in the screening and triage of all referrals coming into NHS Talking Therapies and where appropriate.

Some referrals will require additional triage and screening outside of the multi disciplinary team meeting including reviewing risk in all domains and safeguarding There is also a requirement to provide specialist advice to colleagues and assisting with referrals to the most appropriate services.

As part of this role, the successful applicant will receive regular clinical and line management supervision.

Further information on the role can be found within the job description and person specification.

Job Summary

To provide single point of entry and first level gate keeping into mental health services.

To participate in an MDT (Multi Disciplinary Team) meeting in order to screen, triage and assess all referrals into the service and allocate to the most appropriate service to meet the needs of the service user.
To undertake comprehensive assessments of the health and social care needs of individuals who are referred to the service in addition to comprehensive risk assessments.

To coordinate assessment clinics and prioritise appointments.
To provide assessment for individuals who present through the urgent care pathway with acute mental health needs. Following assessment to be responsible for identifying appropriate management plans, follow up care, referrals and signposting of patients into specialist services.

This post will also hold responsibilities for the assessment and formulation of presenting mental health problems experienced by people at a primary care level.

This post involves liaison with other roles and services within the community, and will directly link with a group of General Practice surgeries.

To participate in the overall development of the service ensuring that the principles of Clinical Governance underpin all developments.
It is expected that you will deliver care in accordance with all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, across five boroughs of Greater Manchester

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our#PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to staff wellbeing.

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

Main

**Responsibilities**:
Clinical Work
- To assist in triaging all referrals that are made to the service as the first level gatekeeper to Mental Health services working within core hours (9 - 5).
- Provide specialist consultation and advice to other health and social care

colleagues as required.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
- Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered.
- To provide assistance to clients and other professionals both from within the service and externally. Providing guidance and direction to clinical staff engaged in telephone based assessments.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- To make onward referral to the most appropriate service to meet the individual needs of the service user fo



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