Single Point of Entry Practitioner

PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Milnrow; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a role focused on triage and gatekeeping within mental health services in Greater Manchester. You will triage referrals, determine appropriate onward care, and contribute to risk assessment and short-term crisis management.

You will work with families and other agencies to ensure high-quality care across inpatient and community settings, supporting service users and carers with compassionate, evidence-based practice.

Responsabilités

• To triage all referrals that are made to the service as the single point of entry and first level gatekeeper to mental health services
• To make onward referral to the most appropriate service to meet the individual needs of the service user following triage
• To carry out a thorough assessment of the service users' current mental health problems and individual needs, including a risk assessment
• To provide short term crisis management as appropriate
• To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations
• To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers
• To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health assessments
• To involve family and carers in the assessment process with service users consent

Description du poste

• To triage all referrals that are made to the service as the single point of entry and first level gatekeeper to mental health services


• To make onward referral to the most appropriate service to meet the individual needs of the service user following triage


• To carry out a thorough assessment of the service users' current mental health problems and individual needs, including a risk assessment


• To provide short term crisis management as appropriate


• To identify the need for protection in line with safeguarding children and the Protection of Vulnerable Adult Policy and to comply with statutory obligations


• To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers


• To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health assessments


• To involve family and carers in the assessment process with service users consent
  We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.


• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance


• Access to Continued Professional Development


• Involvement in improvement and research activities


• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service


• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel