Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: (shift work including nights is required)
- Hours
- Part time - 17.5 hours per week (Across seven days and nights)
- Job ref
- 350-MHC5941354-B
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southport Hospital
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/06/2024
Employer heading
Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
Band 6
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Job overview
Whiston Core 24 is a specialist liaison service that supports the rapid assessment of service user's mental health for those who present to the Emergency Department in times of crisis or, those who are referred from the acute general hospital wards and the formulation of treatment and risk management plans based on assessment of needs with the appropriate triage and diversion form the service.
The service operates on a shift system of long days (currently under review), inclusive of nights to provide 24/7 365 days a year service. The service has recently undergone Organisational Change to make the service more flexible across the Urgent Care footprint, providing support to Mersey Cares additional Core 24 services including Royal Liverpool, Warrington, Aintree and Southport Core 24 services where required.
We are looking for an experienced practitioner with a wealth of experience working in mental health services, inclusive of organic services.
Main duties of the job
A unique opportunity has arisen within the Whiston Core 24 team based at Whiston Hospital for a band 6 Mental Health Practitioner. This role will involve working across the Emergency Department and the medical inpatient wards, providing assessment, care and treatment of service users with mental health issues secondary to physical health.
This role requires some knowledge of physical health comorbidities an how this impacts upon an individuals mental health in an acute hospital setting. The role involves working closely with colleagues in the acute trust, contributing within the MDTs and over seeing mental health care and treatment from admission to discharge.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assessment and formulation of treatment plans and risk management plans.
Crisis intervention and sign posting to relevant agencies, such as, CMHT's, CRHT, mental health inpatient referrals, third sector agencies.
Working collaboratively and participation in Multi Disciplinary Team meeting's.
Awareness of physical health conditions.
Good understanding of the Mental health and mental Capacity Acts and how these are applied in an acute hospital setting.
Providing support and supervision to junior members of the team.
Providing, support and acting as a point of contact to the acute hospital.
Participation in internal audits.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
- Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice
Desirable criteria
- Working towards master level education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in mental health
- Evidence of leadership and management skills
- Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
- Evidence of supervising staff.
- Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
- Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
- Experience in change management and policy formulation
- Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX
- Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
- Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally
- Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
- Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
- Leadership Skills
- Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
- Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
- Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation
- Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs’ responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Professional attitude
- Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- The ability to lead change management
- Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward / team area.
Other
Essential criteria
- On going post-registration development.
- Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jude Porter
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01704 383179
- Additional information
David Scott
Clinical lead
01704383179
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