We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Senior Liaison Worker to join our team in the Bridgwater locality, delivering a high-quality service to individuals with mental health challenges who do not meet the criteria for secondary care. This pivotal role involves managing a small caseload while offering structured guidance, supervision, and support to mental health staff and village agents working with this group of service users.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled professional with a passion for mental health care to make a significant impact on the community and support a collaborative, person-centered approach to service delivery.
Main duties of the job
Our Community Mental Health Team is a Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm service, so no weekend working required; office hours only!
You will manage a small, rolling caseload of patients allocated to you where you will monitor their mental state, promote independence, promote social inclusion, aid the recovery process, and reduce hospital admissions.
You will be a non-medical prescriber and support medication advice to patients.
You will work in collaboration with the Operational Team Manager, Clinical Leads/Practitioners and have close working relationships with the community teams, inpatient services, and the home treatment team across the service.
You will need a full driving licence with permanent access to your own transport with appropriate business insurance; this is so that you may carry out patient visits - you are able to claim expenses.
To help you achieve the above we will offer you:
Mentoring and supervision from our highly experienced staff and team leaders supporting you with your development and growth into the role.
Clear objectives and pathway to develop your career further.
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
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RMN
* To be registered as an independent non-medical prescriber with their respective professional regulating body.
* Commitment to Continuing Professional Development in the field of mild, moderate and severe mental and emotional health.
Experience
* Significant experience in working with people with complex clinical and risk presentations, including those with mental and/or emotional health difficulties.
* Experience of offering clinical supervision to other professionals.
* Working with clients in the community.
Additional Criteria
* Ability to build collaborative therapeutic relationships with service users who are difficult to engage.
* Skills for assessing service users and carers and interpreting service user and family situations, and ability to draw together appropriate case formulations.
* Ability to work within and between multi-disciplinary teams and the wider Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and voluntary sector providers, with the ability to develop and maintain communication on complex matters, issues, and ideas and/or in complex situations where the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
* Communicates highly complex condition-related information to service users & carers.
* Ability to offer highly specialised clinical supervision to other staff who may be of a different professional discipline.
* Assess, develop, and implement psychosocial interventions; provides specialist advice to service users, carers, individual team members, and teams.
* Ability to undertake and communicate complex risk assessments.
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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