Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

• 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

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.