Are you passionate about making a difference in mental health care? Join our dedicated team and play a crucial role in transforming lives within Acute Trusts across Somerset.
Your Role:
1. Comprehensive Assessments and Interventions: Conduct thorough mental health assessments and provide targeted interventions for patients presenting with suspected or actual mental health issues.
2. Expert Guidance: Empower acute care staff with specialist mental health advice, enabling them to manage a wide range of mental health challenges effectively.
3. Service Focus: Prioritise assessment, admission avoidance, and discharge planning in A&E. Facilitate early and effective discharge for adults from inpatient wards within the general hospital.
4. Continuous Professional Growth: Maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills and expertise at an advanced level.
Main duties of the job
As a liaison clinician, you'll bridge the gap between mental and physical health within the acute hospital setting. Respond promptly to crisis referrals in the emergency department and from inpatient wards, performing critical tasks such as:
1. Biopsychosocial Assessments: Place patients and their loved ones at the heart of all evaluations and interventions.
2. Risk Management: Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and develop effective risk management plans.
3. Collaborative Working: Engage in cross-system collaboration to provide integrated care.
4. Education and Advocacy: Reduce stigma and enhance mental health awareness by delivering regular training programs within the acute care setting.
About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:
* Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
* NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
* Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
* A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential
Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.
We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Job responsibilities
1. Effective communication in a variety of forms, both verbal and written
2. Strong working relationships within the team, across the acute setting and wider system.
3. Planning and organisation of day to day work and recognising areas for improvement and change.
4. Being responsible for patient care and treatment for work delegated to you, ensuring this is clearly documented.
5. As a band 6 you will be responsible for ensuring you not only you receive regular supervision but facilitate this for junior embers of the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current registration with relevant professional body
* Registered Mental health Nurse
* Social Work or Occupational Therapy Qualification
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Psychological therapies training
Experience
* Experience of managing risk of clients in crisis, recognising when to seek additional supervision
* Experience of working within psychiatric liaison services
* Experience of working within both older adult and adult acute settings
* Evidence of high levels of motivation in the provision of care.
Additional Criteria
* Significant post registration experience in community mental health services, Home Treatment or Psychiatric Liaison Team.
* Demonstrate in depth knowledge of mental health assessment care planning development and evaluation skills in conjunction with clients and carers.
* Sound knowledge of Mental Health Act Legislation.
* To be conversant with Trust policies and procedures.
* Proficiency with computer based care records.
* Proven ability to generate ideas and innovate change.
* Good knowledge of resources and working practices across health and social care.
* Ability to be innovative in practice.
* Working knowledge of psycho social interventions, cognitive behavioural therapy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£37,338 to £44,962 a year shift work required for 24 / 7 service
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