Job Overview
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 who work with service users and carers in care homes with a diagnosis of dementia and/or functional mental health.
The role involves working 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 West Wiltshire area, but there may be occasions where support is needed in other parts of 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.
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