Clinical Lead Ward Liaison (RMN/OT)

Job overview

Are you looking for a change of pace in your career? Or looking to step up into a senior clinical role?

We're recruiting for a Clinical Lead Ward Liaison to join the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment based in Aylesbury.

The Clinical Lead Ward Liaison role sits within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHTT) team but will be based for much of the time in the acute inpatient wards. The post holder will track inpatients through their admission, ensuring that when the purpose of the admission has been met, typically assessment, risk management and planned treatment/interventions, that the patient can be discharged back to the address from where they were admitted with home treatment support as necessary as soon as is safely possible.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake autonomous assessments and risk assessments and support a positive risk-taking approach to the ongoing care pathway for patients whose needs no longer need to be managed in an inpatient setting.
• To support the effective use and management of the inpatient resource, ensuring that capacity is maintained in the local inpatient wards to enable those patients with highest need to be supported close to home.
• To become a member of the leadership teams in the adult acute wards, building relationships based on trust, openness and transparency.
• To support the development of home treatment care plans that meet the immediate needs of patients and their carers/significant others at the point of early discharge from the inpatient wards using the entire resource that the CRHTT has on offer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To act as a clinical expert taking a lead role in developing meaningful and achievable safe early discharge plans for patients whose risk profile and clinical presentation indicate that care and treatment no longer needs to be provided in an inpatient environment.

To take an active leadership role in enabling the team to meet all relevant key performance indicators, particularly those associated with being a CRHTT that meets Home Treatment Accreditation Standards and the requirements of being a CRHTT model that meets CORE fidelity.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.