Mental Health Liaison Practitioner | Flexible NHS Role

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Blackburn (OK); Presencial; USD 48.000 - 66.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to work within Royal Blackburn Hospital, providing input to both acute and emergency settings. You will engage with patients presenting with a wide range of mental health and psychosomatic concerns, using high-level communication skills to support distressed individuals and their families.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clinical colleagues and partner services.

Responsabilidades

• Assist in the provision of quality evidence-based practice, within a busy A&E department and Acute wards. Providing advice; support and care, liaising with other agencies under the guidance of the Mental Health Liaison Nurses for Service Users and their families who present often in a distressed state with complex mental health needs and social difficulties.
• Completion of physical health tools to improve the physical health of service users with mental illness.
• Provide 1:1 support to service users waiting psychiatric admission in A&E

Descripción del empleo

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to work within Royal Blackburn Hospital, providing input to both acute and emergency settings. You will engage with patients presenting with a wide range of mental health and psychosomatic concerns, using high-level communication skills to support distressed individuals and their families.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clinical colleagues and partner services.