Description
We have an excellent opportunity for experienced Duty, Risk and Mental Health Practitioners to join us in a new role in an established Talking Therapies service.
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.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
Experience Required:
- 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.
Benefits:
- 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.
About Us
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything they do.