Mental Health Practitioner Referral and Assessment Hub
Main area: Mental Health
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time, compressed hours, happy to discuss flexible working)
Job ref: 553-A
Location: Claire House Town Wigan
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Closing date: 11/06/:59
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the Wigan referral and assessment team. We are looking for skilled practitioners, with mental health experience, who are able to complete triage and assessments at the front door service into secondary care mental health.
Main duties of the job- Provide rapid assessment and care/pathway planning for people referred into the R&A with mental health problems.
- Carry out mental health assessments, accessing all available sources of information and including, where appropriate, the views of family and carers.
- Undertake and record comprehensive need/risk assessments, developing clear goals and timeframes for onward interventions with the service users.
- Experience of undertaking initial biopsychosocial assessments.
- Evidence of post registration training/development.
- Post registration experience of working in mental health community services.
- Knowledge of the wider community system.
- Independent ability to undertake initial mental health assessments, identify service users' needs and plan goal focused care.
- Ability to complete risk assessments reflecting potential risk posed by a service user.
- Transfer risk assessment into robust risk management and pathway planning.
- Effective communication with service users, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
- Knowledge of primary and secondary care services.
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Registered Social Worker
- Registered Occupational Therapist
- NMP
- Ability to work flexibly over a 7 day period across the service.
- Ability to travel to a variety of community locations within the division.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years).
All positions are subject to satisfactory pre employment checks. Post holders requiring a DBS will need to subscribe to the DBS Update Service and be enrolled for a fee of £16 per year.
We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and to ensuring a workforce representative of the diverse communities that we serve, including BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.