Senior Liaison Mental Health Practitioner Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

JCasp Technologies - Website Apps & AI/ML Development Company; Oldham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative team is seeking a Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to provide high-quality assessments and interventions for patients in crisis. This role involves working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to ensure comprehensive mental health support and effective management of referrals from A&E and hospital wards. You'll play a crucial role in enhancing patient care, offering training to hospital staff, and coordinating assessments under the Mental Health Act. Join a supportive environment that prioritizes your professional development and work-life balance, making a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Qualified Mental Health Professional with experience in crisis intervention.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive mental health and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical assessments and interventions for mental health referrals.
• Provide support and training to acute hospital staff on mental health.

Skills

Mental Health Assessment

Clinical Risk Assessment

Multi-disciplinary Teamwork

Crisis Intervention

Patient Management

Education

Qualified Mental Health Professional

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 Mental Health Liaison Practitioner.

You'll join an innovative team striving to provide a high-quality service, ensuring patients receive a comprehensive assessment, onward referral, and safety netting when they attend A&E in a mental health crisis, are admitted to 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 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 and Responsibilities (this is not exhaustive):

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. Be expected to 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. This would include 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.

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.

Additional Responsibilities (this is not exhaustive):

1. To have the ability to recognize and work within your own limitations and raise any concerns to senior staff.
2. To be able to prioritize workload, completing the necessary tasks within the available time.
3. To participate in service planning, evaluation, and development.
4. To 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. To deal appropriately with clinical incidents, complaints, etc. from patients, relatives, and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy.

This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Apr 2025.