Risk Triage Assessor

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Job summary

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic clinician to join our busy Wandsworth team. The post requires a high degree of autonomy in assessing mental health care needs and delivering a safe, timely service to service users.

The role supports governance standards, discharge planning, signposting to primary care, and collaboration with community teams. It is a senior nursing role requiring significant experience in duty and mental health assessments.

Qualifications

• Senior nursing experience with autonomous decision making.
• Ability to assess complex mental health needs and coordinate care.
• Capability to promote high standards of patient care and governance.

Responsibilities

• Assess mental health service users and signpost to other services.
• Discharge to primary care when appropriate and coordinate care.
• Engage user and carer involvement across all aspects of service delivery.
• Promote high standard of patient care through leadership and example.
• Collaborate effectively with agencies involved in supporting adults with severe mental health problems.

Skills

Autonomy

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Nursing registration

Job description

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.

• To assess and work with mental health service users and signpost them to other services and discharge to primary care where necessary. Any service users needing longer term secondary care and care coordination will be transferred to the relevant teams in the Trust.
• The post holder is expected to utilise community resources, working closely with Primary Care.
• The post holder will ensure user and carer involvement in all aspects of service delivery.
• The post holder will be expected to promote, by example and leadership, a high standard of patient care.
• This is a senior nursing role with immense experience in duty and mental health assessments – it is not suitable for newly qualified nurses or those without adequate experience. The ability to work and make decisions autonomously will be essential.
• The post holder will communicate and collaborate effectively with all agencies and agents involved in supporting adults with severe mental health problems.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Henry Airen-Egharevba Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 020 3513 4421