Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - Community Hospitals

Job overview

Hours per week: 37.5

6 month fixed term

Job share/secondment/bank contract considered

We are looking for a senior mental health practitioner to join our team on a 6 month fixed term contract basis.

You will work in partnership with patients in the Community Hospital setting as they complete their hospital treatment; providing practical, emotional and signposting support as well as acting as a patient advocate if requested. You will work alongside Community Hospital colleagues to improve patient experience, care and wellbeing.

We will work with you to ensure that we support your personal and developmental needs, this includes a bespoke induction to ensure that you are fully prepared and supported in delivering this role.

Our aim is to work closely with our Community Hospital colleagues to deliver a pro-active, patient focussed service that delivers the right care at the right time and your work will ensure that the voice of the patient is fully recognised.

If you have excellent interpersonal skills, the desire to deliver high quality care and you are ready to use your experience to support others then please get in touch to talk through the role.

Main duties of the job

• Offer a visible, accessible presence within community hospitals in the provision of an assessment service to inpatients presenting with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses. The nature of the role will also include the need for specialist assessments, treatments and interventions to older people with complex needs or enduring mental health issues.
• Deliver innovative and inspiring mental health training to support Gloucestershire Care Service priorities that enable the health and social care workforce and other priority groups to deliver high quality mental health services.
• Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the hospital wards
• Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients who have or who are suspected to have a mental health issues.
• Assisting and supporting community hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
• Providing formal and informal clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
• To be a positive role model that promotes social inclusion and equitable mental and physical health for people living with mental health issues and their carers.
• Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work as part of the community hospitals mental health liaison team providing a core mental health liaison and assessment service 5 days per week
• To operate widely within Community Hospitals across the county. The team will provide a presence in each of the clinical areas which will mean in practice that each of the clinical areas across the county will be visited on a weekly basis. This equates to approximately 240 inpatient beds in total