Mental Health Practitioner - Twickenham, United Kingdom - South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

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Twickenham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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This exciting opportunity for a band 7 clinical post to join our primary care mental health liaison team.

The Richmond Wellbeing service was an innovative service development back in 2012 combining two service elements in order to provide seamless care packages of medical and psychological aspects of mental health care based in primary care.

This set up is now at the heart of current NHS development and transformation efforts to bring different aspects of care to neighbourhood teams (Primary Care Networks), and this post offers an exciting chance to be part of the transformation of services in Richmond.

The Primary Care Liaison (PCL) team accepts referrals from Richmond GPs and other statutory/non-statutory services and provides consultations for GPs; outpatient assessments; and brief periods of interventions/follow up care for people with common mental health problems.

PCL clinicians routinely provide medication and diagnostic reviews as well as referrals to specialist providers or community support agencies.

The team also has an important role in promoting effective liaison between primary and secondary care mental health services throughout the borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.