Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for the development and clinical oversight of Older People Mental Health Liaison (OPMH Liaison), across Liaison Services in Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital, providing senior clinical leadership to the team.

The post holder will ensure that the OPMH Liaison services meet agreed objectives and effectively deliver a high-quality service, working in collaboration with Liaison Team Managers.

The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical supervision to OPMH Liaison clinicians and take responsibility for enhancing OPMH liaison services across the sites.  The post holder may take on operational management of staff as agreed with local services and operational management.

The post holder will be required to travel between sites/ base themselves at different sites throughout the working week.

Main duties of the job

• Work alongside senior colleagues to provide clinical leadership to older people’s liaison team.
• To support with the day-to-day management of the MDT.
• To ensure that effective communication is maintained.
• To be responsible for setting and maintaining standards of care.
• To liaise with community and inpatient teams regarding gatekeeping of patients to offer an alternative to hospital admission/expediate early discharge from an inpatient service.
• To be fully conversant with statutory and non-statutory services in Greenwich/Bexley/ Bromley and to promote effective liaison and operational links as appropriate.
• To actively participate in the development of Older People’s Mental Health Liaison Services.
• To participate in the evaluation of the service in conjunction with the Senior Management Team and Quality and Audit  Departments.
• To be responsible for the planning and facilitation of induction programmes for members of a multidisciplinary team.
•  Direct clinical/management supervision of staff ensuring assessment of their professional responsibility and effectiveness.
• To always work to actively promote the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy and to challenge discriminatory practices and behaviour.
• To maintain high standards of professional integrity and respect for others in all dealings with service users, colleagues, and other professionals and members of the public.
•  Able to work within a high level of autonomy.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care