Risk Triage Assessor

South West London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health care provider in the UK is seeking an enthusiastic clinician to join their team. This position involves assessing patient's mental health needs and ensuring high-quality care in collaboration with various support teams. Ideal candidates will demonstrate autonomy, teamwork capabilities, and a commitment to maintaining governance standards in a friendly environment.

Qualifications

• High degree of autonomy in assessing patient's mental health care needs.
• Ability to deliver a caring and safe service.
• Experience in team functioning and governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient's mental health care needs in a timely and organized way.
• Maintain high quality assessments and discharges.
• Work closely with team members and external partners.

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and proactive clinician to join our busy team who is able to demonstrate a high degree of autonomy in assessing patient's mental health care needs, and who can deliver a caring and safe service in a timely and organized way. This is an important role for team functioning and ensuring high quality assessments, discharges and signposting for our service users.

Wandsworth Single Point of Access Team (WSPA) provides a borough-based assessment only service for adults aged 18-74, whereby all referrals are channelled through our team, and directed to receive appropriate care either within the Trust or in Primary care. We work closely with the community recovery and support teams, early intervention, crisis resolution & home treatment teams and the AMHP service. We work in close partnership with GP commissioners and other key partners, including voluntary organisations.

This is a friendly and supportive team. You would work alongside the Consultant Psychiatrist Team manager and other clinicians to ensure governance standards are maintained, and support in daily team functioning, thus ensuring that our key performance indicators and quality improvement are met.