Triage Practitioner
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health BoardAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
This role will have responsibility to provide a single point of access for all referrals into the Memory Service within Older Adults Mental Health.
The role will ensure all referrals are screened in line with the All Wales Mental Health Triage Scale and categorised appropriately in order to manage risk.
The role will be required to liaise with multi-agencies to establish a comprehensive assessment of referral information to utilise analytic and professional judgement when reviewing individuals/care partners need, imparting and discussing sensitive information with their care partners if there is significant risk identified or lack of capacity.
Main duties of the job
The role will be required to collate and analyse the statistical data from the current database to facilitate the process to triage all referral information making autonomous clinical judgement in order to prioritise and allocate the referral to the appropriate professional within the service or suggest alternatives to the referrer.
The role will review all referrals to identify any gaps in the referral process with the view to strengthening existing joint partnership systems to improve early and appropriate referrals.
In line with the All Wales Dementia Care Pathway of Standards this role will support the administration of collating statistics and the development of a dementia register.
This role will work as part of a multidisciplinary team in supporting fellow colleagues within the community, to ensure the delivery of a high quality service for older adults with mental health needs and work collaboratively with the local authority, third party sectors, and other disciplines within CTMUHB.
The role will undertake supervision responsibilities for staff within the team.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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