Community Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Oldham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service is seeking a passionate and experienced Community Mental Health Liaison Practitioner. You will join a dedicated team responsible for delivering care and support to older adults facing mental health challenges in the community. This role involves conducting assessments, planning care, and working closely with community agencies to enhance the quality of life while preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.

Qualifications

• Permanent position with Band 6 RMN qualifications required.
• Experience in mental health services strongly preferred.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct mental health assessments and triage.
• Provide support through care planning and interventions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in community settings.

Skills

Assessment skills

Care planning

Mental health expertise

Education

Registered Mental Nurse (RMN)

Job description

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We are looking to recruit a Permanent dynamic and experienced Band 6 RMN to join our Older Peoples Liaison Mental Health Service. The service aims to provide older people in Oldham with mental health problems, care and support closer to home, avoiding admissions to secondary services and long-term care wherever possible, and sits between primary care services and secondary services . This is a team which is evolving in its role as Oldham works its way towards developing our Living Well services.

The service supports patients referred either by the acute hospital or GP via living well hub and community-based cluster teams with a suspected or actual mental health problem. The team is comprised of a group of Band 6 RMN’s and you would work as part of the MDT and undertake duties within the Older People’s Liaison Team including assessment, care planning, triage and interventions as specified within individual care plans.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for passionate and dedicated RMNs to join the Community MH liaison service within Oldham as services gradually move to a neighbourhood cluster model. As the service model is changing this will mean that there may be changes which affect this post - it will remain however a permanent post

This service will provide mental health expertise within the multidisciplinary cluster teams and community enablement services. You will be working with a wide range of colleagues from health and social care and other statutory and voluntary agencies to support individuals in the community or those within the hospital discharge, enablement and intermediate care pathway.

The service operates Monday to Friday and you will work predominantly with, and have a passion for supporting older adults. You will be providing full mental health and risk assessments and short term interventions with individuals in collaboration with their support network. You will be working within the multidisciplinary team with a strong focus on improving quality of life and preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and long term care. Where required you will signpost people in to secondary care mental health services.

You will be an autonomous and confident practitioner who is able to think outside the box and put individuals and their carers first. In return you can expect all the support needed to undertake this rewarding role.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small dedicated team of band 6 nurses who provide nursing care and treatment to patients living in the community.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with other teams in the older peoples services across the Trust and in social services.

You will be given lots of support and opportunity to develop within the service.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Oluseye Sonubi Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07912455366

If you are unable to contact Olu directly, please contact admin - Danielle Heron 0161 716 2081 who will ask Olu to contact you

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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