Senior Liaison Mental Health Practitioner

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Oldham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Qualified Mental Health Professional to join their innovative team in Oldham. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in high-quality mental health assessments and interventions, ensuring patients receive comprehensive care during crises. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will play a crucial role in improving patient outcomes through effective clinical assessments and support. The organization is committed to staff development and well-being, providing a flexible work-life balance. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health care, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Professional registration in health or social care is essential.
• Experience in risk assessment and holistic assessment practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver effective responses to mental health referrals from the acute trust.
• Conduct mental health assessments in the Emergency Department.
• Provide clinical support to police and ambulance staff.

Skills

Holistic assessment approaches

Complex risk management

Organisational skills

Problem-solving skills

Leadership skills

Education

Professional registration in health or social care

Additional training relevant to the role

Job description

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Job overview

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 mental health liaison practitioner.

You'll join an innovating team thriving to provide a high-quality service, ensuring patients receive a comprehensive assessment, onward referral and safety netted when they attend A&E in a mental health crisis, admitted on the wards or detained under S136.

Working in the LMHT, you will receive all age referrals from A&E, hospital wards or Section 136 from the police. Referrals will be assessed, and care planned for admission, discharge, and signposting to services that can meet the needs of the individual. For service users presenting with symptoms of a severe and enduring illness, and/or risks to self or others, you will complete a comprehensive mental health assessment and risk assessment to ensure that risks are managed and ongoing support is provided.

Main duties of the job

1. Work as part of the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Liaison team to deliver an effective and efficient response to referrals from the acute trust, providing clinical assessments and interventions focusing on relapse prevention, early discharge, and improved quality of life for patients referred.
2. Undertake mental health assessments for people attending the Emergency Department, offering highly developed clinical and risk assessments and management plans.
3. Provide a service to the wards within the general hospital, assessing individuals with a range of complex physical and mental health needs, including both functional and organic illnesses of later life in addition to younger people.
4. Provide support and training to acute hospital staff regarding recognizing mental health conditions and appropriate management and onward referral pathways.
5. Provide information and clinical support to police and ambulance staff in order to help them make appropriate pathway decisions.
6. Provide support and care for individuals brought to an identified Place of Safety under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and coordinate the assessment process.

Working for our organisation

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 experienced practitioners willing to support your learning and development needs, offering flexibility for work-life balance and with a strong desire to maintain staff wellbeing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Recognise and work within your own limitations and raise any concerns to senior staff.
2. Prioritise workload, completing the necessary tasks within the available time.
3. Participate in service planning, evaluation, and development.
4. Comply with Trust Uniform Policy including the principle of 'bare below the elbows'.
5. In the absence of the clinical lead, act as shift coordinator and take responsibility for referral triaging and management, planning and allocating the workload on a day-to-day basis.
6. Deal appropriately with clinical incidents, complaints, etc., from patients, relatives, and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional registration in health or social care with up-to-date accreditation.

Desirable criteria

• Additional training relevant to the role.
• Experience in risk assessment.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of national legislation (including MHA and MCA), guidelines and evidence-based practice relevant to the role.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and holistic assessment practices.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of liaison role with A&E department and medical wards, common issues and presentations.

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Experience using holistic assessment approaches and complex risk management.
• Excellent organisational, problem-solving/prioritisation skills and able to work in a time-pressured manner.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership skills/abilities.

Work-related circumstances

Essential criteria

• Flexible working across division if necessary.
• To be able to work a range of shifts over a 24-hour, 7-day period on a rotation basis.

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider the brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure your application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.