Integrated Care Mental Health Practitioner

Dorset HealthCare; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare is seeking an experienced practitioner to work across Primary Care and Access Wellbeing Services within an Integrated Model of Care. The role focuses on local communities and GP practices, delivering screening, triage and referral guidance to support connected care pathways.

You will coordinate across Primary Care Networks to screen and triage referrals, oversee patient pathways from SPOA to virtual MDT, and supervise the Single Point of Access model in the locality.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Primary Care within identified Locality to undertake screening, triage of referrals into the Access Wellbeing offer, and to provide advice and guidance around referrals, interventions and treatment pathways.
• Take a person-centred care approach to enable collective decision-making with patients.
• Proactively and effectively engage with virtual MDT meetings to provide clinical updates.
• Work closely and creatively with colleagues in Mental Health Services to determine the most appropriate service for a patient whose needs exceed those which can be met in a primary care setting.
• Work closely with local Community Mental Health Teams by attending Team meetings, jointly meeting patients, and generally integrating with the team to help form a seamless care pathway for patients
• Use complex decision-making to inform, formulate plans and manage episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
• Screen and triage patients, including same-day triage and undertake urgent or emergency assessment if required.
• Offer advice, guidance, support and supervision to other colleagues within the SPOA.
• Make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team or other mental health services as required.
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day-to-day allocation of work
• Main duties of the job – Dorset HealthCare’s Integrated Model of Care and collaboration across services.

Job description

Dorset HealthCare is seeking an experienced practitioner to work across Primary Care and Access Wellbeing Services within an Integrated Model of Care. The role focuses on local communities and GP practices, delivering screening, triage and referral guidance to support connected care pathways.

You will coordinate across Primary Care Networks to screen and triage referrals, oversee patient pathways from SPOA to virtual MDT, and supervise the Single Point of Access model in the locality.