Are you a RMN, OT or Social Worker? Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role in Mental Health? Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) is looking for a Band 6 professional to join their team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the BANES PCLS team to recruit a suitably qualified professional to work specifically with older adults.
There is flexibility to work between Hillview Lodge, Bath and The Hollies in Midsomer Norton.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with excellent frontline assessment skills, who holds a registered Mental Health Nursing qualification. You will possess both experience and enthusiasm for working with Older Adults.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining an experienced and dedicated team of professionals who provide telephone triage, video and face-to-face assessments to service users and their carers across BaNES, working alongside other specialist professionals, including GPs and partnership agencies.
You will play a key role in responsive, person-centred and needs-led mental health assessments as well as brief interventions. You will be a team player and someone who is able to show sensitivity and tact as an essential requirement, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
The team is committed to supporting continued professional development and actively promotes a learning culture within the team. We value the importance of staff wellbeing and foster this enthusiastically.
This role has an abundance of variety, challenges and rewards. If this role sounds appealing, then we would very much like to hear from you.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation 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 recognise 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 description
Job responsibilities
1. To provide information, proportional assessment and signposting to patients and their family and carers presenting with mental health problems/needs in community settings.
2. To foster strong collaborative and trusting working relationships with the referring agent/Primary Care Health Care Professionals underpinned by an educative and solutions-focused philosophy whilst providing them with credible clinical expertise.
3. To assist the primary care and secondary mental health teams in the delivery of safe and appropriate care planning processes.
4. To provide a prompt response to all referrals following jointly agreed procedures and within agreed time frames.
5. To 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.
6. To ensure where needed that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services.
7. To make effective use of the standard liaison approach and structure for assessments according to the SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) format.
8. Following assessment, to provide short-term follow up of patients where appropriate.
9. To contribute evidence-based expertise to multi-disciplinary team care planning processes.
10. To provide effective communication with service users, relatives and carers, Primary Care and Secondary health services.
11. To advise on medication management issues.
12. To ensure the active involvement of carers during all stages of the assessment process.
13. To provide a prompt response to requests for information and advice.
14. To ensure appropriate communication, both verbal and written, at all stages of the consultation process.
15. To 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.
16. To provide evidence-based specialist advice on how best to meet the mental health needs of the population for staff of other agencies, service users and carers.
17. To raise awareness of the effects of physical conditions on the mental health of service users.
18. To assist and participate in appropriate service development forums.
19. To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care.
20. To adhere to the relevant professional code of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies are maintained.
21. To monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.
22. To develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.
23. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
24. To assist in the development and implementation of appropriate systems aimed at ensuring a consistent approach to assessment, communication and follow-up.
25. To make appropriate use of time and resources.
26. To participate in clinical audit and service evaluation programmes as required.
27. To participate in local arrangements where required to manage unexpected staff absences.
28. To be able to complete assessments across a largely rural area and have access to a vehicle to use during the working day in order to facilitate this.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional qualification in mental health equivalent to RMN, Registered Social Worker or OT.
Desirable
* Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non-Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc.
Knowledge and experience
Essential
* Detailed working knowledge of how secondary specialist mental health services are organised and operate, where and how they fit into the health and social care community.
Desirable
* Experience gained in a wide variety of settings.
Skills
Essential
* Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies.
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
The Hollies
Midsomer Norton
BA3 2DT
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