GP Plus Worker - Part Time

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join our Primary Care Service in Stevenage on a part time basis (0.47FTE).

The role of the GP Plus Worker will be to work across the interface between Primary Care and Mental Health Services to work alongside the Service Manager/s to facilitate mental health assessment in Primary Care, and support GP's about decision making in relation to secondary care referrals, support transition of service users from the care of secondary mental health services back to Primary Care and to facilitate re-access where appropriate.

You will do this by providing consultation, support, education and problem solving approaches to the Local Primary Care Teams particularly in the area of assessment and management of mental health problems in Adults of working age. This will include "signposting" to other services and occasionally undertake very short term interventions for clients with mild to moderate mental health difficulties., The role is to strengthen access and to provide community triage for people who may need mental health services. You will ensure systems are in place to promote smooth pathways between primary care and secondary mental health services.

Work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

Work in partnership with Health and social care professionals from other agencies and organisations including Community Navigators

Will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant to the Pathway/Protocols to include psycho-education, relevant aspects of social inclusion, Recovery, care plans and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate this.

Work at all times to promote the safety and the well being of service users and their families/carers.

Be an autonomous worker who will support Primary Care surgeries to manage transition of mental health service users from secondary care to primary care

Will operate a team caseload rather than an individual caseload in partnership with primary care.

Provide leadership, management and supervision for junior staff identified to support the Primary Care Mental Health Liaison services.

Provide clinical supervision to staff and students.

Act within the appropriate professional code of conduct at all times.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?