Senior Mental Health Liaison — A&E Night Shift (Permanent)

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucester is recruiting for a dedicated mental health professional to join our 24/7 A&E team. You will conduct needs-led mental health assessments and short-term interventions for patients in distress, with a mix of day and night shifts discussed at interview.

The role emphasises strong interpersonal skills, collaboration with acute hospital colleagues, and delivery of evidence-based psychosocial care while supporting the broader mental

Responsibilities

• Offer an assessment service to patients presenting at the emergency departments with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses
• Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments
• Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients who have predominantly self-harmed
• Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
• Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
• Representing mental health services within the Hospitals Trust.
• Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care

Job description

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucester is recruiting for a dedicated mental health professional to join our 24/7 A&E team. You will conduct needs-led mental health assessments and short-term interventions for patients in distress, with a mix of day and night shifts discussed at interview.

The role emphasises strong interpersonal skills, collaboration with acute hospital colleagues, and delivery of evidence-based psychosocial care while supporting the broader mental