Psychiatric Liaison Service Clinician - Aylesbury

TN United Kingdom; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a well-regarded Liaison team in Buckinghamshire as a Psychiatric Liaison Service Clinician. You'll provide essential mental health services, conduct crisis assessments, and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality care for patients in acute psychiatric states.

Benefits

Career progression

Tailored learning

Annual leave

NHS discounts

Lease car and cycle schemes

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff accommodation

Support groups

Qualifications

• Experience in crisis assessments and risk assessments.
• Registered student mentor with current registration.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health services at Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospital.
• Manage assessments and demands of a busy environment autonomously.
• Arrange brief evidence-based psycho-social treatments for patients.

Skills

Crisis assessments

Risk assessments

Teaching

Complex patients

Liaison work

Education

Current Registration

Registered student mentor

Job description

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Client:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Aylesbury, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

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Posted:

17.05.2025

Expiry Date:

01.07.2025

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Job overview

Do you want to join a small, fun and well regarded Liaison team in Buckinghamshire?

We are seeking a Psychiatric Liaison Service Clinician to join our Psychiatric Liaison Service. The purpose of the Bucks Psychiatric Liaison Service (PLS) is to provide a liaison psychiatry service for patients in acute psychiatric states (psychosis, severe depression, dementia, and delirium) presenting to the Acute Hospital Trust. The service also provides assessment, liaison, and treatment advice to meet patients' mental health and physical needs.

Along with crisis assessments within hospital settings, we provide expert mental health advice, support, and training to staff. You must work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective, and high-quality care.

We are a strong team working towards PLAN accreditation and seek someone with proven team working skills. Please note this role requires clinicians to work 3 long days per week on a rota system with 4 rest days.

Main duties of the job

• Provide mental health services at Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospital, ensuring patients' mental health needs are met alongside their physical needs.
• Manage assessments and demands of a busy environment autonomously.
• Arrange and provide brief evidence-based psycho-social treatments for patients who have self-harmed.
• Support timely and safe discharge from wards, working closely with the Trust to avoid unnecessary prolonged stays.
• Contribute to reducing unnecessary inpatient admissions and support appropriate care packages as alternatives to admission.

Travel between sites within the Trust is essential. If based outside the UK, full qualifications, passing the OSCE, and holding an NMC pin or HCPC registration are required.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.

Services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and homes, aiming to provide care close to home.

Our vision: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”. Our values: “Caring, safe and excellent”.

We offer benefits including career progression, tailored learning, annual leave, NHS discounts, lease car and cycle schemes, Employee Assistance Programme, staff accommodation, and support groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Experience

• Current Registration
• Experience in Crisis assessments
• Registered student mentor

Clinical skillset

• Experience in risk assessments
• Experience in teaching
• Experience with complex patients
• Positive attitude towards service users
• Interest/experience in Liaison work