SPA Triage Practitioner

Job overview

To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

You will be a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or will have substantial Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) clinical experience, and where appropriate will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC). They will have extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

• Clinicians are qualified professionals who routinely complete tele-triages, these are brief 20-30 minutes calls to establish needs and risk and make a clinical decision if the referral is accepted into Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services or signposted to Primary care service.
• Screen referrals coming into the service, this is the primary gatekeeping measure to separate emotional well-being referrals and signpost them accordingly from referrals requiring further triage.
• Complete IT tasks recording on Electronic Patients Records System, proficient use of Microsoft Outlook, Excell and Word.
• They are required to complete mandatory training, monthly supervision and Safeguarding supervision.
• They are responsible for maintaining their registration and are accountable to their own regulatory code of practice.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients, via NICE compliant pathways and in accordance with the crisis care concordat.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

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.