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23.01.2025
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09.03.2025
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Job summary
We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Band 6 to join the Exeter Liaison Psychiatry Team. The successful applicant will help deliver high quality and comprehensive assessment and consultation to people with mental health needs in the Royal Devon and Exeter University Hospital.
Liaison Psychiatry is a service that specializes in the interface between medicine and mental health. We are seeking to recruit an experienced clinician with 2-3 years post-qualifying experience to join our 24/7 service.
You will have a key role in contributing to the mental health care of people in the general hospital. We welcome applications from all mental health professionals, including Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers.
3 x Full time Band 6 positions available.
1 x Full time Band 6 position for 12 month maternity cover also available.
Devon Partnership Trust will support you to learn the skills you need to thrive in the role. We will offer you the training and development support you need to begin a fulfilling career. In return, you will need to be motivated, flexible, and eager to learn.
We offer relocation packages to this beautiful part of Devon.
We invite applicants to speak directly to the manager and spend time with the team while applying for the position.
Main duties of the job
You will work within a Senior Mental Health Practitioner role, helping support referrals from colleagues within the Royal Devon and Exeter University Hospital. You will be part of a busy team that completes both assessment and consultation work with people who require support for their mental health needs.
Your responsibilities will include making specialist mental health assessments and devising interventions to help people recover. You will play a key role in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working with multiple agencies daily. You will deliver care in line with evidence-based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills appropriate to the clinical situation presented.
You will be supported to work confidently within an MDT with the knowledge to devise individual safety plans for the people you see. Effective communication with colleagues, the people you care for, their families, and carers is essential.
We ask that you are an experienced mental health professional with a professional mental health qualification (RMN, CQSW/ASW, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT).
We will help you grow in the role and can provide a range of training opportunities, including CPD modules that can help you develop the skills you need to thrive in the job.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist and secure services for the wider south west region and nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise and resources within our organization, and through our partnerships, to deliver high-quality services that are safe and focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families, and carers in everything we do.
Our values
We recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviors which underpin our Trust's core values, including a commitment to quality of care, improving the lives of others, and showing respect, dignity, and compassion. We are committed to being an inclusive employer, and applications are encouraged from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered and supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity, or learning disabilities.
Job responsibilities
The Liaison Psychiatry Service provides a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week comprehensive service to patients, clinicians, and carers at the local District General Hospital (DGH). This includes specialist mental health assessment and intervention to people of all ages from the age of 18 who present or are admitted to the DGH.
We provide a specialist consultation-liaison service to referring clinicians and clinical teams, assisting them in decision-making in difficult and complex cases, and providing both formal and informal education to qualified and unqualified staff, and offer a broad range of specialist psychosocial treatments for individual inpatients.
Staff within the service are also representing the Devon Partnership Trust in the general hospital setting and will play a vital role in communicating and maintaining a good working relationship between the two organizations.
Through consultation, assessment, and interventions, the Liaison Psychiatry Service aims to:
* Arrive at a formulation that will identify the correct care pathway and ensure this is implemented
* Improve the quality of mental health care for all patients
* Improve quality of life for both patients and carers
* Identify and manage risk
* Reduce the length of stay in the general hospital
* Prevent hospital admissions
* Reduce the number of incidents and complaints
* Measure improvements of health outcomes
* Determine service needs
A key aim of the service is to contribute to the acute care pathway, ensuring that those persons who present to the DGH receive a timely specialist mental health assessment by a specialist mental health worker. A significant proportion of these presentations will be those who present with acts of self-harm and suicidal behaviors.
In Exeter, our service incorporates the following areas:
Acute Care Pathway (ACP) - Ensuring a timely response to people who attend the Emergency Department and facilitating discharge from the Acute Medical Unit and other wards.
Inpatient - Assessing and reviewing patients who are kept on caseload for a period of monitoring while they remain inpatients in the RDUH Eastern wards. This will include dementia, delirium, depression, eating disorders, psychosis, medication management, and support for patients and wards in challenging situations, ongoing risk assessment, and monitoring.
Integrated Psychological Medicine Service (IPMS) - Ensuring pathways are in place to allow access to the right treatment at the right time for those who present with both complex physical and psychological needs.
There are high rates of mental health problems among people with long-term medical conditions, and people with severe mental illness have a reduced life expectancy due to physical health issues.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
* Contribute to the team and engage with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers, and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
* Impart complex and sensitive information to:
* Patients and families/carers regarding assessment, care planning, treatment, and review
* Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care
* Primary care teams regarding client care
* External agencies involved in the provision of care (e.g., voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment, etc.)
* Service user and carer groups
* Liaise with a wide range of other professions and agencies.
* Contribute to the safe and effective day-to-day operations of the services, including the handling of clinical inquiries.
* Present information, some of which may be contentious, to patients and their families and carers.
Planning and Organisational Skills
* Attend management and professional meetings as directed by their line manager and professional lead.
* Responsible for planning and coordinating their own day-to-day workload in collaboration with the needs of the service users and the wider needs of the service, requiring excellent prioritization skills.
* Plan and organize case conferences, liaising with other agencies as required to meet the needs of their clients.
* Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and coordinated manner, particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
* Undertake bio-psycho-social assessments, developing a working formulation and diagnosis that will identify onward care pathways. As part of the bio-psycho-social assessment, completion of risk assessment and formulation will determine risk management plans.
* Further assessments/reviews may be required, and adjustments made to care pathways where appropriate.
* Understand and recognize own limitations and seek supervision when necessary.
Responsibility for Research and Development
* Participate in research and development in line with service delivery and development.
Freedom to Act
* Work without direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions.
* When tasks are delegated, ensure that the person you have delegated these tasks to is appropriately skilled to undertake them.
* Work within the operational policies and service specifications of the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
* Responsible for developing care while service users are in the DGH. This will include assessing, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
* Ensure active involvement of service users and their carers.
* Triage/prioritize referrals by assessing and advising on eligibility criteria.
* Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff regarding the care of the patient.
* Participate in safeguarding adults and children.
* Act in an advisory and collaborative role in interpreting clinical, professional, and technical policies relating to adult mental health.
* Appraise current practices and standards in light of new research findings and introduce evidence-based techniques as appropriate.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation
* Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings.
* Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements to ensure the quality of the service provided.
* Participate in the development of Mental Health Services.
* Work collaboratively on the formulation and review of policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures within DPT and the DGH.
* Attend and participate in relevant groups to include policy implementation, networking, peer review to promote benchmarking and sharing of best practices.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment, and Other Resources
* Responsible for care of own equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources, Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management
* Supervision of junior qualified and non-qualified staff.
* Provide clinical supervision.
* Coordinate the activity of the team and facilitate handover meetings.
* Provide mentorship to students allocated to the team.
* Take a clinical lead in the absence of the team leader/practice lead.
* Participate in clinical and managerial supervision as well as annual PDR.
* Participate in team staff support.
* Support staff within the DGH to holistically manage people presenting with complex mental health issues and offer appropriate therapeutic interventions.
* Actively participate in producing and delivering training packages to our colleagues in the DGH and act as a point of reference as required.
* Keep up to date with all Core and Essential Training requirements.
Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties
* Maintain up-to-date clinical records in a timely and accurate manner in line with standard operating procedures.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
* The postholder works towards complying with the core competencies for mental health liaison practitioners as described in the Competency Framework for Liaison Mental Health Nursing.
Professional Duties
* Practice in a way that actively minimizes dependency and promotes recovery.
* Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working to the principles of the functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the standards and values set out in them.
* Work cooperatively with staff colleagues within the Acute Hospital, other parts of the mental health services, primary care, and other statutory and non-statutory organizations.
* Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, who are entitled to receive safe and competent care. The Service User's wishes, feelings, values, and beliefs should be taken into consideration as well as the views of the people close to them.
* Take personal accountability for your own practice, meaning you are answerable for your actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another professional in accordance with the NMC Professional Code of Conduct.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
* An understanding of Local Mental Health Care Pathways / Mental Health Act / Mental Health Capacity Act & DOLS requirements.
* Willingness to engage in completion of a competency framework to enhance knowledge and skills.
* Specialist knowledge and experience of acute mental health issues within working-age and older adults.
Desirable
* Awareness of community structures and social care management responsibilities.
* Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Excellent communication skills, including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
* Ability to think and work independently/autonomously following induction.
* Ability to manage risk decision-making as part of a person's care plan.
* Able to work independently and as part of a team.
* Ability to manage own time and that of the teams.
* Ability to work flexibly.
* Computer literacy and ability to produce reports.
* Excellent clinical assessment skills.
* Ability to manage change in a positive manner.
Experience
Essential
* Extensive post-registration experience working at band 5 (2-3 years minimum) in mental health care, ideally in both inpatient and community settings.
* Experience of leading on completion of biopsychosocial assessments with people with mental health needs.
* Experience of clinically supervising junior and unqualified staff and mentoring students.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
Desirable
* Participation in user involvement in services.
* Postgraduate qualification relevant to the specialism.
* Clinical Supervision qualification.
* Mentorship qualification.
* IT Skills.
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