Band 6 Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - Weston-Super-Mare

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job overview

The Mental Health Liaison Team provides a comprehensive service to patients/service users, carers and clinical colleagues based within the Weston General Hospital.

Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illness.

Providing a mental health consultation liaison and advice service.

Delivering a range of nursing and psychosocial interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate.

Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.

Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff.

Representing mental health services within the general hospital.

Providing a communication structure between the general hospital, secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.