ARRS Mental Health Practitioner - Primary Care (Inner City Gloucester PCN 0.6 WTE, Cheltenham Peripheral PCN 1.0 WTE and St Paul's PCN, Cheltenham 1.0 WTE)
This is an exciting opportunity to improve the experience for individuals with mental health needs through offering early assessment and access to treatment and support to promote mental health and well-being within primary care. Embedded within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), our ARRS Practitioners are outward facing linking seamlessly with the Gloucestershire Health and Care (GHC) NHS Foundation Trust, where we will provide support with supervision and training opportunities. The PCNs provide a welcoming environment for SMHPs making them feel part of their teams and there is Countywide support from SMHP colleagues based in other practices. Main duties of the job
The ARRS Practitioner will be an integrated member of the GP practice team and will take the lead in ensuring best practice is delivered across your allocated GP surgeries. The role requires working autonomously in providing high volume assessment, diagnosis, and treatment appointments, advice and support for GPs in caring for other patients with mental health issues, improve links with and navigation to community providers. The MH Practitioner will work within a number of GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network. Enthusiasm, an ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues across service areas to bring about change and the desire to develop and improve services will be fundamental to these roles. Professional development, governance support, training and supervision will be provided by GHC Trust working collaboratively with colleagues in Primary Care. We will consider offering a Band 6 developmental role to candidates with suitable knowledge and experience. Support from our Operational Lead, the wider team and colleagues within each PCN will be in place to help development into the Band 7 role.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected: To work within a multi-professional primary care team to provide a service for adults 18+ with varying levels of mental health needs, including SMI and Complex Emotional Needs that may co-exist with physical health problems within the registered patient population. To exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role. To act as a practice leader, managing your own workload and to work across professional, organisational and system boundaries to improve services and develop practice. To navigate, liaise with and refer onto mental health services, voluntary and public sector agencies and community support groups. To support the delivery of annual mental health reviews for adults on the practices mental health register. To provide specialist advice, supervision and support to practice colleagues in relation to patients with mental health issues. In particular to help identify (through Risk Stratification) those patients potentially at risk of relapse to support their continued wellbeing and to reduce their impact on the Health and Wellbeing service as a whole. Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
Registered Mental Health Practitioner, eg Mental Health Nurse (RMN) Desirable
Non Medical Prescriber LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
Significant, recent clinical experience in the assessment of mental health at Band 7 level. Front line experience of using advanced assessment skills especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health (functional and organic) and differentiation between physical and mental health symptoms and conditions. Extensive working knowledge of the makeup of the wider health and social care community including statutory and non-statutory services and direct experience of multi inter-agency working and collaboration. Detailed working knowledge of how specialist mental health services are organised and operate, where and how they fit into the health and social care community. Desirable
Contemporary experience of working in a primary care setting. Experience of assessment and management of patients with mental health conditions in a primary care setting. Experience of the wider community mental health service in recovery / crisis teams. Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Address
Eastgate House Eastgate Street Gloucester GL1 1PX
#J-18808-Ljbffr
This is an exciting opportunity to improve the experience for individuals with mental health needs through offering early assessment and access to treatment and support to promote mental health and well-being within primary care. Embedded within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), our ARRS Practitioners are outward facing linking seamlessly with the Gloucestershire Health and Care (GHC) NHS Foundation Trust, where we will provide support with supervision and training opportunities. The PCNs provide a welcoming environment for SMHPs making them feel part of their teams and there is Countywide support from SMHP colleagues based in other practices. Main duties of the job
The ARRS Practitioner will be an integrated member of the GP practice team and will take the lead in ensuring best practice is delivered across your allocated GP surgeries. The role requires working autonomously in providing high volume assessment, diagnosis, and treatment appointments, advice and support for GPs in caring for other patients with mental health issues, improve links with and navigation to community providers. The MH Practitioner will work within a number of GP practices within a specific Primary Care Network. Enthusiasm, an ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues across service areas to bring about change and the desire to develop and improve services will be fundamental to these roles. Professional development, governance support, training and supervision will be provided by GHC Trust working collaboratively with colleagues in Primary Care. We will consider offering a Band 6 developmental role to candidates with suitable knowledge and experience. Support from our Operational Lead, the wider team and colleagues within each PCN will be in place to help development into the Band 7 role.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected: To work within a multi-professional primary care team to provide a service for adults 18+ with varying levels of mental health needs, including SMI and Complex Emotional Needs that may co-exist with physical health problems within the registered patient population. To exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role. To act as a practice leader, managing your own workload and to work across professional, organisational and system boundaries to improve services and develop practice. To navigate, liaise with and refer onto mental health services, voluntary and public sector agencies and community support groups. To support the delivery of annual mental health reviews for adults on the practices mental health register. To provide specialist advice, supervision and support to practice colleagues in relation to patients with mental health issues. In particular to help identify (through Risk Stratification) those patients potentially at risk of relapse to support their continued wellbeing and to reduce their impact on the Health and Wellbeing service as a whole. Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
Registered Mental Health Practitioner, eg Mental Health Nurse (RMN) Desirable
Non Medical Prescriber LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
Significant, recent clinical experience in the assessment of mental health at Band 7 level. Front line experience of using advanced assessment skills especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health (functional and organic) and differentiation between physical and mental health symptoms and conditions. Extensive working knowledge of the makeup of the wider health and social care community including statutory and non-statutory services and direct experience of multi inter-agency working and collaboration. Detailed working knowledge of how specialist mental health services are organised and operate, where and how they fit into the health and social care community. Desirable
Contemporary experience of working in a primary care setting. Experience of assessment and management of patients with mental health conditions in a primary care setting. Experience of the wider community mental health service in recovery / crisis teams. Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Address
Eastgate House Eastgate Street Gloucester GL1 1PX
#J-18808-Ljbffr
