General Practitioner Assistant

• You support the general practitioner in the role of mental healthcare gatekeeper by providing care to patients with 'mental health questions'.
• This primarily involves clarifying questions and providing short-term guidance to patients with psychological or psychosocial problems.
• Maintaining contacts and reports are also part of your duties.
• You work under the ultimate responsibility of the general practitioner and receive operational guidance from them.
• The goal is to strengthen primary mental healthcare from the general practitioner's practice and, where necessary, to ensure adequate referral to other healthcare providers from an independent position.
• You hold independent consultations, provide guidance, and perform short-term treatments for patients with psychological problems.
• Home visits are made where necessary.
• Your specific tasks include:
• triage, with or without the aid of a screening instrument;
• short interventions to empower the patient;
• guiding chronically psychiatric patients at the general practitioner's practice;
• reporting in the General Practitioner Information System (HIS);
• active involvement with other care providers in the neighborhood, including neighborhood teams;
• weekly team meetings with team members.

What they ask

• Knowledge of the most common treatment methods and intervention models, such as solution-focused interventions, motivational interviewing, self-help models, and e-health.
• You dare to undertake, pioneer, and build bridges between the general practitioner's practice and mental healthcare.
• A completed POH-GGZ training or willingness to obtain it.
• A master's degree in psychology with a specialization in clinical psychology or a completed social psychiatric nurse training with BIG registration.
• A positive Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required.