Main area: Mental Health Practitioner - First Response Service
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include regular weekends and night shifts)
Job ref: 373-SMH2328
Site: Liaison Psychiatry AED Corridor, Countess of Chester Hospital
Town: Chester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview:
* We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time band 6 registered practitioner within our liaison psychiatry team based in Chester. The successful applicant will also be expected to work across Urgent Care Mental Health First Response Services, which will include Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams, Liaison Services, Street Triage Services, Liaison and Diversion Services and the Crisis Triage and Response Service.
If you want to know more about us and the opportunity available - we are offering you the chance to join our Team Manager/Resource Manager on a Microsoft Teams where you can ask questions in an informal setting and learn more about the service before applying.
Main duties of the job:
The Practitioner will work as part of a multidisciplinary liaison team to provide comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments and interventions for people presenting to the acute hospital with a wide range of co-morbid psychiatric illnesses. This can be within the AED setting or medical wards across the whole hospital site. The Service runs for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, this will involve some unsocial hours, nights and weekends.
Also to provide comprehensive assessment for people experiencing mental health crisis in a community setting whilst working in partnership with police colleagues, NWAS and Local Authorities.
Assessments will be offered to patients aged 16+ (with no upper age limit) to provide mental health consultation, liaison and advice throughout departments delivering a range of evidenced based psychosocial interventions to individual patients as required.
The post holder will be expected to work as part of the Urgent Care Mental Health First Response Service which includes Crisis Triage & Response Services (Crisis Line/First Response), Liaison Psychiatry, Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Teams, Street Triage and Liaison & Diversion services (Criminal Justice).
Working for our organisation:
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care including the provision of three GP surgeries. Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Criteria:
* Recognised qualification in mental health RMN, AHP, Social Care (AMHPs)
Desirable criteria:
* Evidence of further professional development involving serious mental illness.
* Willingness to undertake and complete nurse prescribing certificate.
* Non-medical Prescribing certificate.
Knowledge & Expertise Essential criteria:
* Knowledge and sensitivity to equal opportunities issues
* Sound knowledge of current professional staff development and continuous service improvement issues, particularly in the context of ADHD and personality disorder services.
Desirable criteria:
* Information Management and Technology skills.
Expertise Essential criteria:
* A good amount of post registration experience or demonstrated competencies through Personal Development Plan.
Desirable criteria:
* Multi-disciplinary team work.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Louise Northall
Job title: Team Manager
Email address:
Additional Information:
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact or telephone 01244 393100.
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