Mental Health Triage Worker Band 5/6 Developmental Post

NHS; Cinderford; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Mental Health Triage Worker to enhance community mental health services. This role requires a newly qualified Mental Health Nurse to assess patients and provide tailored support, emphasizing collaboration across care teams. Candidates will gain essential skills through supervision and developmental opportunities.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in mental health or community setting.
• Evidence of post-registration learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health assessments and support.
• Participate in supervision and mentoring students.
• Utilize psychological interventions and support integrated care.

Skills

Mental Health Assessment

Patient Support

Collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse (Mental Health)

Core Health Professional Qualification

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Triage Worker Band 5/6 Developmental Post

The closing date is 10 July 2025

The Forest of Dean MHICT team at Colliers Court are looking for a newly qualified, or soon to be qualified Mental Health Nurse, who would like to develop skills working within the community; this role will help you to develop new assessment and treatment skills working within a fast paced service. We are open to exploring possible secondment opportunities and shadowing days with the team to help candidates in developing an awareness of the role.

The successful candidate will be supported to complete a personal development plan and for those newly qualified a preceptorship. Supporting the successful candidate to complete a range of activities and learning outcomes including medication management/NMP/CBT and DBT skills.

Compassionate, creative & self-motivated mental health professionals are required to help us continue to offer a truly great assessment, signposting and short-term treatment service.

Our health care professional teams, some of whom are Non-Medical Prescribers (NMP), work across the county in local teams.

We require forward thinking individuals who have an interest in working in a Mental Health Primary Care context within local GP Surgeries and other Gloucestershire Health and Care Teams, offering assessment, consultation and support to General Practice staff and colleagues in the voluntary and third sector.

Main duties of the job

Our professional teams provide assessment, treatment and signposting to other community services based on health promotion, recovery and socially inclusive principles. We work in GP surgeries as well as community bases, providing face to face, video and telephone appointments.

The service currently has access to a range of psychological interventions that form part of the NHS Talking Therapies Service (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ) service. As an autonomous worker you will be using your initiative when decision making around which services will best serve your patient.

You will be a newly qualified Mental Health Nurse, (registered with the appropriate professional body) and have experience of first line mental health assessments, including risk assessment.You might be, or are interested in becoming a non-medical prescriber (RMNs only). We are able to support training as an NMP.

Participating in supervision and mentoring students is a key part of this role.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Core Health Professional Qualification. Registered Nurse (Mental Health) or Social Worker or Occupational Therapist
• Current Professional Body Registration [NMC or HCPC or Social Work England]
• Has driving license and access to vehicle for business use
• Evidence of post registration learning
• Formal Teaching & Assessing Course

Length and/or Nature of Experience

• Demonstrable experience in mental health or related area
• Experience of working within community setting
• Experience of first line assessments including the assessment of risk
• Working knowledge of recovering approach and social inclusion
• Experience of collaboration working with other agencies including the voluntary sector
• Experience of providing short term evidence based interventions e.g. CBT, Brief solution focussed therapy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

£29,970 to £44,962 a yearper annum (pro rata)