Primary Care Liaison Practitioner - Grimsby, United Kingdom - Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

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Grimsby, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

As part of the Community Mental Health Framework and the integration into PCNs, this role will pioneer the triage and assessment pathways for the PCN Team.

You will directly liaise with GPs and act as a single point of contact for the PCN where there is uncertainty about the level of mental health need that requires further exploration.

Following GP consultation, via direct booking offering a triage appointment to determine priorities of need and risk and coordinating onward referral to the most appropriate community service.

You will consistently monitor and track all referrals to reduce attrition, ensuring clear feedback to the GP on progress for cases transferred into specialist MH services.

As the Primary Care Liaison Practitioner, you will be responsible for ensuring the service user gets to the right team at the right time as much as is foreseeable.

This means keeping your clinical practice up to date and ensuring a good working knowledge of the services you will be referring to, including Specialist Services such as ADHD, Autism and Early Intervention in Psychosis.

The Community Mental Health Framework brings together working age and older adult care teams to work together seamlessly.

This will mean working with all people over the age of 18 regardless and diagnosis and severity which includes but is not limited to those with:

coexisting frailty (likely in older adults) coexisting neurodevelopmental conditions eating disorders common mental health problems, such as anxiety or depression complex mental health difficulties associated with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

co-occurring drug or alcohol-use disorders, and other addiction problems, including gambling problems. severe mental illnesses such as psychosis or bipolar disorder.

You will also have:
Registration with a relevant professional body such as NMC or HCPC Evidence of continuing professional development A minimum of 2 years post graduate experience of working with mental illness Experience of triage and signposting Experience of complex care assessments and assessments of risk Experience of delivering complex care and a range of interventions Experience in delivering clinical supervisions and working in multi-disciplinary team settings Experience of providing assessment of physical health care in Mental Health You will be able to: Assess service user need, both mental health, health and social needs and risk and advise on next steps Keep composed and work under pressure and to problem solve in complex and often chaotic situations Work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary team Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people Organise your own time and diary and that of junior staff and learners Engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances Have confidence in administration of Anti-psychotic medication in the form of injection