Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Practitioner (GP+)

Job summary

Are you a skilled mental health Nurse?

Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?

We have a vacancy for a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner based in South West Hertfordshire (Watford).

Join us in continuing to deliver our effective primary care mental health services!

This role is in line with the 10 Year Plan for Mental Health and recognises that by placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices, promoting recovery focused early assessment and treatment will help the service user achieve the best outcomes.

You will join a team of Band 6 mental health practitioners who are based within the primary care setting. They will be supported by Band 7 ARRS workers and the Service Manager/Clinical Matron.

Please contact Ben Mahoney View phone number on meeveem.com) for an informal chat or to arrange a visit. We look forward to hearing from you!

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will

• be a qualified mental health nurse
• provide assessments and brief interventions
• be prepared to work in-person and remotely
• work alongside various professional groups including GPs, other primary care professionals and wider community agencies
• have knowledge and experience of working with individuals with mental health needs
• undertake assessments of individuals and their families within primary care including the assessment of risk in order to consider access or re-access to secondary mental health services
• be a core member of primary care teams within a defined area, using specialist mental health knowledge
• develop links and foster a culture of partnership between Primary Care Teams and HPFT Adult Mental Health Services.

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (maximum £2,011 per annum pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on...

Job responsibilities

• To enable other practitioners in Primary Care to develop their skills and confidence in assessment and treatment of particular mental health problems.
• Facilitate joint work between Primary Care and Secondary Care interface and Primary Care/Voluntary Sector to increase range of services/interventions available.
• To develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices, attending practice meetings and having regular informal contact.
• Interventions will be delivered under Primary care governance and policies whilst also maintaining adherence to HPFT Trust policy.

For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

Essential

• Registered mental health nurse
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Completion of Mentorship/preceptorship Course/ENB equivalent, or intention to complete

Desirable

• Non-medical prescriber

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Post-registration experience
• Previous experience of working in the community/primary care setting
• Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health problems
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of delivery teaching sessions to colleagues and professionals.

Desirable

• Experience of supervising staff.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY

Essential

• Ability to develop effective professional relationships with others
• Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships
• Develop own skills and knowledge and provide information to others to help their development.
• Participate in partnership working with individuals, groups, communities, and agencies
• Ability to formulate community care plans, based on relevant models
• Ability to maintain high standards of recordkeeping, including accurate data entry and recording.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Essential

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and unambiguously
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers, and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any differences in communication

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

Essential

• Able to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals in accordance with professional, ethical guidelines and Trust policies
• Work within the spheres of own professional responsibilities and escalate clinical and operational concerns to senior clinical and operational management in a timely way as and when required.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).