Older Persons Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

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Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an older adults and dementia nurse. This full-time role at the Princess Royal Hospital offers the chance to work collaboratively in mental health services, focusing on comprehensive assessments and patient care. The position supports personal and professional development within a compassionate environment dedicated to improving community health outcomes.

Benefits

Fully funded lifelong learning opportunities

Career development support

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Nurse, Social Worker or OT required.
• Mentorship or clinical teaching qualification is a plus.
• Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act is essential.

Responsibilities

• Independently undertake assessments for older adults and dementia patients.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient care and discharge planning.
• Foster relationships with patients, colleagues, and carers.

Skills

Communication

Clinical skills

Education

Registered Mental Nurse

Mentorship or ENB 998

Job description

Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AFC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9-5) Job ref 354-AN-20829

Employer Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Employer type NHS Site The Princess Royal Hospital Town Haywards Heath Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum / Pro rata for part time Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2025 23:59

NHS AFC: Band 6

Come and join us

We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

We are seeking an older adults and dementia nurse to join our mental health liaison team based at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, this is a 9-5 Monday-Friday role.

You will be working at the interface between physical and psychological health and bring your knowledge and expertise to your general hospital colleagues. You will work within our MDT in order to provide specialist assessment, treatment and discharge planning to those patients with functional and organic mental health conditions.

Main duties of the job

We support patients referred to our service with a wide range of physical and psychological co-morbidities including those people presenting to mental health services for the very first time.

You will need to be able to work autonomously and have excellent communication skills and be able to foster excellent relationships with patients, carers, general hospital colleagues and other parts of the health and social care system.

Working for our organisation

We are Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, providing mental health, learning disability and neurodevelopmental services to people living in south east England. Our services are for children, young people, adults of working age and older people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a challenging but rewarding role, offering an exciting opportunity. You will need the ability to work autonomously whilst still contributing to the team as a whole. If you enjoy the challenge and stimulus of working under pressure and are able to remain calm in quickly changing circumstances, you will be well suited to this role.

You will be independently undertaking comprehensive assessments for older adults and people living with dementia, working autonomously to generate risk assessments, care plans, and onward planning. This will involve working with patients, their loved ones, other areas of mental health services, our acute trust colleagues and more to ensure positive outcomes for all those referred to our service.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Nurse, Social Worker or OT
• Mentorship, ENB 998 or level 3 module in teaching and assessing in clinical practice

Knowledge/Experience

• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and DOL’s
• Knowledge of the MHA (1983/2007)

Analytical & Judgement skill

• Excellent clinical skills

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.