Mental Health Senior Triage Worker inCheltenham inCheltenham PUBLISHED 16 DEC 2023

Band 6: £35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum, pro rata  PERMANENT 
The service currently has access to a range of psychological interventions that form part of the NHS Talking Therapies Service (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ) service.

The post holder will be a senior member of the team working with service users across the Strategic Service Units who have a common and severe mental health. The purpose of this role is to:

  • Provide assessment and implementation of brief evidence-based interventions for service users who are experiencing common, acute mental health and recovery needs covering cluster 1-3 some of 4 ,8 and 11
  • Optimise the service users ability to remain in the community and / or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles or recovering and social inclusion and the 10 essential capabilities
  • Support clinical governance, information collection and audit at entrylevel

Compassionate, creative & self-motivated mental health professionals are required to help us continue to offer a truly great assessment, signposting and short-term treatment service.

Our health care professional teams, some of whom are Non-Medical Prescribers (NMP), work across the county in local teams.

We require forward thinking individuals who have an interest in working in a Mental Health Primary Care context within local GP Surgeries and other Gloucestershire Health and Care Teams, offering assessment, consultation and support to General Practice staff and colleagues in the voluntary and third sector.

Our professional teams provide assessment, treatment and signposting to other community services based on health promotion, recovery and socially inclusive principles. We work in GP surgeries as well as community bases, providing face to face, video and telephone appointments.

The service currently has access to a range of psychological interventions that form part of the NHS Talking Therapies Service (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ) service. As an autonomous worker you will be using your initiative when decision making around which services will best serve your patient.

You will be an experienced, qualified Mental Health professional (Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, (registered with the appropriate professional body) and have experience of first line mental health assessments, including risk assessment. You might be, or are interested in becoming a non-medical prescriber (NMP, RMNs only). We are able to support training as an NMP.

Participating in supervision and mentoring students is a key part of this role.


The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

The post holder will be a senior member of the team working with service users across the Strategic Service Units who have a common and severe mental health. The purpose of this role is to:

  • Provide assessment and implementation of brief evidence-based interventions for service users who are experiencing common, acute mental health and recovery needs covering cluster 1-3 some of 4 ,8 and 11
  • Optimise the service users ability to remain in the community and / or be cared for in the least restrictive environment in line with the principles or recovering and social inclusion and the 10 essential capabilities
  • Support clinical governance, information collection and audit at entrylevel

Compassionate, creative & self-motivated mental health professionals are required to help us continue to offer a truly great assessment, signposting and short-term treatment service.

Our health care professional teams, some of whom are Non-Medical Prescribers (NMP), work across the county in local teams.

We require forward thinking individuals who have an interest in working in a Mental Health Primary Care context within local GP Surgeries and other Gloucestershire Health and Care Teams, offering assessment, consultation and support to General Practice staff and colleagues in the voluntary and third sector.

Our professional teams provide assessment, treatment and signposting to other community services based on health promotion, recovery and socially inclusive principles. We work in GP surgeries as well as community bases, providing face to face, video and telephone appointments.

The service currently has access to a range of psychological interventions that form part of the NHS Talking Therapies Service (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ) service. As an autonomous worker you will be using your initiative when decision making around which services will best serve your patient.

You will be an experienced, qualified Mental Health professional (Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, (registered with the appropriate professional body) and have experience of first line mental health assessments, including risk assessment. You might be, or are interested in becoming a non-medical prescriber (NMP, RMNs only). We are able to support training as an NMP.

Participating in supervision and mentoring students is a key part of this role.


The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.



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