Senior Frequent Attenders and Alcohol Liaison Practitioner

PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Oldham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in Oldham is recruiting a Senior Frequent Attenders and Alcohol Liaison Practitioner to join a multi-disciplinary team. You will lead assessments, identify frequent attenders, and develop holistic care plans with case management to reduce unnecessary hospital visits.

The role emphasises collaboration with community services, timely discharge planning, and signposting to relevant resources to support patients and maintain wellbeing within an acute hospital

Qualifications

• Qualified Mental Health Professional required.
• Senior Practitioner within the Frequent Attenders and Alcohol Liaison stream.
• Experience in MDT working and collaborative care planning.
• Ability to develop holistic, collaborative care plans with service users and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments and develop holistic, collaborative care plans.
• Provide case management to high-frequency attenders to reduce hospital attendances.
• Signpost and coordinate referrals to appropriate community and hospital services.
• Work with Care Coordinators and MDT to ensure robust care plans and safe discharge.

Job description

Are you a Qualified Mental Health Professional looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a team that will help you to develop and achieve your goals? Oldham Liaison mental health is recruiting for a Senior Frequent Attenders and Alcohol Liaison Practitioner.

The mental health liaison service offers a comprehensive range of mental health specialities within one multi-disciplinary team so that all patients with a suspected or actual mental health problem within the general hospital can be assessed, treated, signposted, or referred appropriately regardless of age, presenting complaint, time of presentation or severity of condition.

The service puts an emphasis on diversion and discharge from A and E and the facilitation of early but effective discharge from the acute hospital site., As a Senior Practitioner within the Frequent Attenders and Alcohol Liaison aspect of the team, you will work closely with the clinical lead and acute care trust to identify frequent attenders and offer case management to support them in reducing hospital attendances through an MDT approach, collaborative care planning and identification of appropriate alternative resources.

You will provide a comprehensive assessment and develop wholistic and collaborative care plans with Service users and other agencies and, where necessary signpost to other services within the community.

Referrals will come via the Frequent Attenders database for the locality and the A&E Mental Health Liaison Team. For those Service Users that are already known to Mental health services you will work collaboratively with the Care Coordinator to develop a robust plan of care that Multi agencies are involved with to support the person and prevent crisis. If they are unknown you will case manage for a short period of time to enable referrals to the relevant organisation/ agency.

Mental Health Liaison is delivered from a Specialist Mental Health Trust with teams located within the Acute Hospital setting.

Oldham Liaison Mental Health is leading the way in delivering high quality, safe, effective and evidence based best practice assessments and support for patients in A&E and on medical wards. The team is currently working towards getting accredited by The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network.

You will be joining a team of experience practitioners willing to support your learning and development needs, offering flexibility for work life balance and with a strong desire to maintain staff wellbeing.