Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Trafford Primary Care Mental Health & Wellbeing Service |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Barri Evans, Lianne Holland – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role |
Barri Evans & Lianne Holland – Practice Education Leads |
| Placement Address | Manor House 5 Queens Rd Urmston M41 9HE |
| Placement City/Town: | Urmston |
| Placement Phone | 0161 271 0919 |
| Your University Contact: | Stephen Worth- University Link Lecturer – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
-safe working following COVID19 guidelines ie social distancing, working from home, wearing face coverings/masks, not attending placement if showing symptoms of Covid-19, self-isolation etc
-induction and student handbook
-introductions
-housekeeping
-arrange for them to complete Trust induction if not already completed
-arrange access to IT system ie Paris, email. Ensure student has complete I.G training prior.
-learning resources
-shadowing
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Training/refresher course to be undertaken prior to taking on students
PARE accounts to be opened for all practice supervisors and practice assessors
Practice supervisors and practice assessors to receive ongoing support from PEF
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Shift Notes:
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. Not including bank holidays and weekends.
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
-mental health practitioner/patient review
Medical and medication review
-referral and triaging
-supporting patients achieve better health and social outcomes
-supporting carers and families
-educating patients
-patient empowerment
-social prescribing
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Recovery model
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Building and disengaging from therapeutic relationships
-communication with team and external services
-recordkeeping
-referral and triage process
-multi-disciplinary working
-duty responsibilities
-decision making
-assessments
-care planning, implementation and evaluating
-handling complex patients
-managing a caseload
-time management
-autonomy
-problem solving
-assertiveness
-risk assessment and management
-incident reporting
-safeguarding
-chairing meetings
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
As above
What resources are available to help students learning?
– professionals in the team
-e-learning hub
-Trust library
-Recovery Academy
-Literature
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
*Each MHP manages their own patch within Trafford with the support of a Wellbeing Practitioner.
*Established projects that support and promotes their patients’ mental health and general wellbeing.
*Groups
*Facilitating mental health teaching sessions to GPs and colleagues
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Additional Information
PCMHWS provides emotional, health education, social and community support to those who do not meet the threshold of secondary care mental health services. It provides easy access for GP’s and patients who are too complex for IAPT or GP only care, but who are subthreshold for current secondary care providers. Thus, bridging the gap with the provision of a “middle tier”. We focus on patients with high levels of unmet need with a diagnosis of depression and anxiety disorders, as well as those with long term physical health conditions who would benefit for mental health support. We do so via NHS, Social Care and Third Sector partnership-working to provide a more holistic model of assessment and support.
Practice Education facilitator : Sindhu Unni – sindhu.unni@gmmh.nhs.uk