Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Risk & Referrals Manager
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-KW9467-CSS-D
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Crawley, Burgess Hill, Horsham
- Town
- Crawley Burgess Hill Horsham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Risk and Referrals Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Calling Mental Health Nurses (RMNs), Occupational Therapists, Psychological Therapists and other mental health professionals with experience of primary and secondary mental health care! This is an exciting role overseeing and working with a duty team, focused on supporting patients to access primary care services safely.
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies (previously known as IAPT) is nationally recognised as a high performing talking therapies service, with a reputation for clinical excellence, innovation and collaborative working with secondary care and voluntary services. We provide a range of NICE compliant psychological therapies for people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and achieve excellent recovery outcomes for our patients. We have good staff retention and aim to grow inclusive staff teams where diversity is valued and the workforce reflects the communities served.
We are excited to announce we are looking for a further Mental Health Risk and Referrals Manager to complement our current team of two and work alongside the Clinical Leadership team.
We are collaborative in the way we work, encouraging everyone to contribute ideas and suggestions for continual improvement, and have made creative adaptations to our Duty system in response to our Mental Health Risk and Referral Managers' feedback.
Main duties of the job
The management of screening relevant self and professional referrals is carried out by a team of Duty Workers. You will provide duty cover when needed, work alongside the Clinical Leadership team, and existing Duty and be responsible for the organisation and delivery of the established NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies duty rota. The system provides advice and support to our staff (CBT Therapists/Counsellors, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) and our Administrative Team) about all aspects of clinical risk, supporting robust risk management and safeguarding processes across the service.
The Mental Health Risk and Referral Manager will have substantial client contact by telephone, often talking with people who may be distressed, to help screen client suitability for the service and make referrals where appropriate into secondary mental health services. You will manage the interface between NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies and secondary mental health care services.
We have bases in Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Crawley and Horsham and are open to discussing the applicant's base preference. You will report to the Deputy Clinical Lead and engage with the new West Sussex Triage Hub, an exciting new multi-agency approach to management of referrals to services, using the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults’ "No wrong front door” approach.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a great opportunity to join our team as the service delivers on the commitments of the NHS Long Term Plan (2019).
You will be working within a multidisciplinary team that consists of CBT Therapists, Counsellors, PWPs, Administrators, Managers and Employment Advisors, and regularly engage with external stakeholders. We are commissioned to provide services from 8am to 8pm and all staff are required to contribute 7.5 hours of cover over this daily time frame.
We have adapted our service to enable the continued provision of psychological therapies via video platforms and telephone working, and staff have been equipped with laptops and mobile phones to help them work from home. We work with a blended approach involving home working and working on site.
The post holder will still need to be willing and able to travel throughout West Sussex as required.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or professional registration
Essential criteria
- RMN or Allied Health Professional with current registration and accreditation e.g. CBT Therapist/Counselling Psychologist.
- Core Profession (e.g. MH Nursing, Accredited Counsellor, Occupational Therapy, Health Visitor etc.).
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in health or social care and/or psychological therapies.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of IAPT and psychological therapies
- Experience of working with secondary care mental health services.
- Ability to work at pace and effectively under pressure, with patients who are highly distressed and/or at risk of self-harm or suicide
Essential skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to form good working relationships with staff in a multidisciplinary team and with external partners and agencies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sadia Shahzad
- Job title
- Clinical Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01403 620434
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