Band 6 Care Home Liaison Nurse - Salisbury
CHLS is a well-established team, specializing in delivering high-quality interventions to people residing in care homes in the Wiltshire area. We are a small team of nurses working with service users and carers in care homes for individuals with a diagnosis of dementia and/or functional mental health.
To work as an independent practitioner delivering the following core liaison service domains for Older Adults within Care Home establishments in Wiltshire:
1. Rapid & Prioritized Specialist Mental Health Assessment with Recommendations for care & treatment within multiple care pathways.
2. Determination of the nature & severity of mental health needs with consequent signposting and pathway facilitation.
3. Rapid and Accessible ongoing Support, & Advice to the non-specialist workforce.
4. Ongoing Education & Training for the non-specialist workforce.
This post predominantly covers the South Wiltshire area, but there may be occasional support needed for other parts of the team in Wiltshire to ensure service delivery.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Provide specialist assessment for referred service users using specified assessment tools to an agreed standard.
2. Make effective use of the standard liaison approach and structure for assessments according to the SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) format.
3. Following assessment, provide short-term follow-up of patients where appropriate.
4. Contribute evidence-based expertise to multi-disciplinary team care planning processes.
5. Develop and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with service users and significant others.
6. Hold a caseload of service users requiring monitoring and review of medication regimes.
About Us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organization with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire, and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognize that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job Responsibilities
1. Provide specialist assessment for referred service users using specified assessment tools to an agreed standard.
2. Make effective use of the standard liaison approach and structure for assessments according to the SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) format.
3. Following assessment, provide short-term follow-up of patients where appropriate.
4. Contribute evidence-based expertise to multi-disciplinary team care planning processes.
5. Develop and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with service users and significant others.
6. Work in partnership with service users and carers, providing them with relevant information, signposting to relevant agencies, and assisting service users in making choices and plans for their future care.
7. Assist and participate in appropriate service development forums.
8. Provide a specialist service in a variety of settings, managing your own caseload and providing interventions as appropriate based on best available practice.
9. Hold a caseload of service users requiring monitoring and review of medication regimes.
10. Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of casework with individual clients, ensuring that your practice & record keeping complies with all relevant standards and Good Practice Guidelines.
11. Ensure the monitoring and evaluation of the service by collecting and recording high-quality and timely data using electronic and paper systems as required.
12. Attend clinical and team business meetings as necessary.
13. Participate in your own supervision and appraisal, working with your line manager to set and review your objectives, and to identify and meet your training and professional development needs as outlined in the KSF profile for your post.
14. Maintain professional registration and abide by the NMC code of conduct, ensuring required skills and competencies are maintained.
15. Keep up to date with developments in both functional and organic care, ensuring that our practice is based on best available evidence and meets all relevant standards and requirements.
16. Supervise other staff as required.
17. Contribute to the provision of training for students, working with colleagues to ensure that the service meets relevant standards in this respect.
18. Provide support, advice, and training to staff of other services as appropriate.
19. Fulfill other duties as agreed with your line manager.
20. Reduce the likelihood of hospitalization due to lack of expertise in managing low to moderate mental health needs in context.
21. Keep abreast of current research, literature, and other developments relevant to your professional sphere and area of practice.
22. Participate in clinical audit and service evaluation programmes as required.
23. Provide concise and effective liaison and feedback to clinical staff within secondary mental health services and Primary Care teams, including advice on effective and appropriate management strategies for those patients referred to the service.
24. Promote positive attitudes, mutual understanding, and collaboration between non-mental health staff and mental health services, users, carers, voluntary agencies, primary care, and social services.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
* Experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies.
* Significant skills and experience in educating and training.
* A detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation.
* Valid driving licence and access to own car for business purposes.
* Front-line experience of using advanced assessment skills, especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health (functional and organic) and differentiation between physical and mental health symptoms and conditions.
* Desirable: Experience of providing supervision to delegated staff.
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.
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