Duty and Risk Mental Health Practitioner

Vita Health Group; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 70.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Benefits package

Descrizione del lavoro

Vita Health Group is seeking a Regional Clinical Risk & Safeguarding Advisor to support Talking Therapies services. You will provide expert risk and safeguarding guidance to practitioners, liaise with clients and external partners, and help ensure safe, high-quality mental health care across services.

Based remotely, you will work within a regional duty team, handling distressed client contacts, screening referrals, and enabling timely access to appropriate care, while collaborating with GPs and

Competenze

• Hold current registration with a recognised professional healthcare regulatory body.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of risk management and safeguarding processes.
• Maintain ongoing professional development and training.
• Experience working within mental health services and safeguarding protocols.

Mansioni

• Provide clinical risk and safeguarding guidance to practitioners.
• Screen referrals and assess service suitability for timely care.
• Handle significant client contact via telephone, including distressed callers.
• Support interface discussions between Talking Therapies and Secondary Care services.
• Liaise with GPs and external agencies to coordinate care.

Conoscenze

Risk assessment

Safeguarding

Communication

Teamwork

Formazione

Registered healthcare professional

Descrizione del lavoro

Working as part of a regional team, you will play a key role in supporting several Talking Therapies services, providing expert clinical risk and safeguarding guidance to practitioners, liaising with clients and stakeholders, and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care.

• Work within the regional Duty Team supporting several Talking Therapies services.


• Provide clinical advice and support regarding risk and safeguarding to CBT Therapists, Counsellors, DIT and IPT Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), and administrative staff.


• Ensure robust risk management and safeguarding processes are maintained across services.


• Undertake significant client contact via telephone, often supporting individuals who may be distressed.


• Screen referrals and assess service suitability, ensuring clients receive timely access to appropriate care.


• Facilitate referrals into secondary mental health services where required.


• Liaise with GPs, Secondary Care services, and other external agencies.


• Support interface discussions between Talking Therapies Services and Secondary Care Mental Health Services.

Role Information

• Staff development is very important to Vita Health Group and you will have an annual study leave allowance, for your own development as a practitioner.


• The role will be remote but we encourage team building days on site at Vita Health Group bases in the region. You will need to have private working space to take confidential calls.


• Working within NHS mental health services supporting individuals with a range of mental health conditions.


• Assessing and managing multiple and complex presentations of clinical risk.


• Working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.


• Assessing and managing a wide range of safeguarding concerns.


• Supporting individuals experiencing acute mental distress.


• Providing risk and safeguarding advice, consultation, and/or supervision to other healthcare professionals.


• Communicating confidently with clients, healthcare professionals, and external agencies.


• Working across primary and secondary mental health care pathways (desirable).

Qualifications & Registration Required

• Hold current registration with a recognised professional healthcare regulatory body.


• Maintain ongoing professional development and training.


• Have safeguarding training equivalent to Level 3.


• Demonstrate a strong understanding of risk management, safeguarding processes, and mental health service pathways.

As part of Spire Healthcare, we're proud to build on a legacy of improving lives for over 30 years and continue to deliver primary care physical and mental health services accessed through the NHS, via employer-funded care and at our network of private clinics.

We are an award-winning employer regularly recognised at industry events and our latest employee survey revealed the top reasons for working here as:

Top reasons for working here

• Supportive teams and managers


• A positive and inclusive culture


• Strong well-being and mental health support


• Trust, autonomy and flexibility

We invest in your growth with frequent career progression opportunities and development initiatives including mentoring, secondments, management training and regular clinical CPD webinars.

• competitive salary


• flexible working options


• comprehensive benefits package - further details here Careers - Vita Health Group

Equality Diversity & Inclusion

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We actively support a range of initiatives including:

• Disability Confident Leader


• Positive action through Ethnicity and Gender Matters initiatives


• Employer with Heart and


• Mindful Employer status


• Menopause Friendly accreditation

Learn more about our EDI commitments here Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - Vita Health Group. If you need any adjustments or assistance during the recruitment process we will be happy to help - please get in touch at