Mental Health Senior Triage Worker - Band 6

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week.

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 networks and other Gloucestershire Health and Care Teams, offering assessment, consultation and support to General Practice staff and colleagues in the voluntary and third sector.

Our professional teams provide assessment, treatment and signposting to other community services based on health promotion, recovery and socially inclusive principles. We work alongside GP surgeries and other partnership agencies in 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 an experienced, qualified Mental Health professional (Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, (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 (NMP, RMNs only). We are able to support training as an NMP.

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

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.