The mental health liaison team provides a comprehensive service to patients/service users over 16yrs, carers, and clinical colleagues based within the Acute Hospital Trust. This involves:
1. Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of mental health and psychological problems.
2. Providing a mental health consultation-liaison and advice service.
3. Delivering a range of nursing and psychosocial interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate.
4. Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.
5. Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff.
6. Representing mental health services within the general hospital.
7. Providing a communication structure between the general hospital, secondary mental health services, primary care, and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the mental health liaison team, the post holder will be expected to assess and treat patients who are referred from a variety of sources, which will include:
1. Emergency Department
2. Urgent Care Centres
3. Medical assessment areas
4. All wards, departments, and clinical teams across the hospital
Patients may present with a wide range of mental health and psychological problems, including following an episode of self-harm, psychiatric emergency, and as a consequence of physical illness. You will be expected to work with individuals experiencing psychosomatic disorders and a variety of psychological and adjustment issues resulting from physical illness. You will be required to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems, while utilising effective clinical judgments about the most appropriate treatment, discharge, and follow-up options. You will use higher-level communication skills, both written and oral, and have an ability to engage with challenging and/or acutely distressed individuals, sometimes in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations.
You will have experience of working with service users who present with complex mental health needs.
You should be able to demonstrate evidence of Leadership and care that facilitates a positive culture of patient engagement, a commitment to enhancing the service user and carer experience, and ongoing professional development.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part-time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Nurse (Mental Health) - current NMC Registration or equivalent professional health care qualification
* Evidence of professional updating and development in the care of patients in an acute or community setting
Knowledge
Essential
* Extensive knowledge of the various approaches to mental health assessment.
* Knowledge of key areas of liaison psychiatric practice, including the psychological effects of physical illness.
* Knowledge of nursing and psychiatric interventions with patients in an acute phase of mental illness/distress.
* Knowledge of risk assessment and management, particularly in relation to suicide.
* Knowledge of Common Law and issues relating to the Mental Health Act (1983).
Experience
Essential
* A minimum of two years post-registration mental health experience.
* Involvement in innovative practice and multi-cultural environments.
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
Blackpool
FY4 4FE
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