# Community Mental Health Practitioner /Psychiatric Triage Nurse

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Harrow
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £45953.00 to £54254.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Community Mental Health Practitioner/Psychiatric Triage Nurse to join the Harrow Community Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing health and social care needs, negotiating care plans with service users and their carers, and providing short-term interventions for clients with complex and severe mental illnesses.

Key responsibilities include:

- Receiving referrals from GPs and undertaking comprehensive psycho-social mental health assessments

- Acting as a contact point and providing a link/liaison role to GP practices

- Screening non-urgent GP Adult mental health referrals and identifying patients suitable for management in primary care

- Facilitating onward referral and rapid access to mental health services and other agencies

- Providing appropriate short-term interventions for clients with complex and severe mental illnesses

- Supporting the safe discharge case management of patients discharged from secondary care

The Trust offers a range of benefits, including:

- Commitment to career mapping and continuous professional development

- Free access to Staff and Wellbeing service

- On-site shadowing opportunities

- Excellent staff benefits, including childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, and season ticket loans

- Award-winning Staff Networks and annual award ceremonies

The salary for this post is £45,953 to £54,254 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata if part-time).

This is a fixed-term post for 6 months, working full-time with flexible working arrangements.

## Skills

### Required
- Mental Health Nursing
- Communication skills
- Report writing
- IT skills
- Assessment and planning skills

### Nice to have
- Training in Psychosocial Interventions
- Thorn Family Therapy/Work training
- Leadership skills
- Basic counselling and group work skills
- Staff wellbeing training

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