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 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 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.
About Us
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.
Job Responsibilities
1. Recognize and work within your own limitations and raise any concerns to senior staff.
2. Prioritize workload, completing 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
* Professional registration in health or social care with up-to-date accreditation.
Desirable
* Additional training relevant to the role.
* Experience in risk assessment.
Knowledge
Essential
* 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
* Knowledge of liaison role with A&E department and medical wards, common issues, and presentations.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Experience using holistic assessment approaches and complex risk management.
* Excellent organizational, problem-solving/prioritization skills and able to work in a time-pressured manner.
Desirable
* Leadership skills/abilities.
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
* Flexible working across divisions if necessary.
* Ability to work a range of shifts over a 24-hour, 7-day period on a rotation basis.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Pennine Care NHS FT
Address
Royal Oldham Hospital
Forest House
Oldham
OL1 2JH
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