Senior Mental Health Practitioner (willing to undertake AMHP training) inPlymouth inPlymouth PUBLISHED 8 MAY 2024
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In conjunction with other team members screen all referrals received by the team.
Undertake holistic and comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessments incorporating assessment of mental state of patients referred to the service.
Utilise a range of highly specialised clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients and the clinical setting in which they are seen
Conduct risk assessments on all patients presenting to the service in line with CPA policy. The post holder will have highly developed risk assessment skills to manage complex presentations and challenging behaviors.
Advise ward nursing, medical and other professional staff on the management of patients and contribute to care planning to meet identified needs
Evaluate effectiveness of care interventions with all disciplines of staff, adjusting care plans where necessary.
Provide a consultation-liaison service to clinicians and clinical teams within the general hospital. This will include giving specialist advice on care, treatment and patients management issues.
Work in collaboration with colleagues in the promotion of care delivery and strategic objectives and taking responsibility/lead for specific areas of working e.g. liaison with police, drugs and alcohol, Safeguarding.
Refer and signpost people to appropriate mental health services as required both within and outside of the organisations area.
Work collaboratively with social care teams, discharge planning teams, onward care teams, community liaison teams and community mental health teams in devising appropriate discharge plans.
Deliver care that is evidenced based and reflecting current best practice.
Be accountable for own practice in accordance with NMC Code of Professional practice or HCPC relevant codes of practice.
Demonstrate sound understanding of the ethical and legal issues in caring for all adults attending the hospital. This will include Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (2005) issues as required.
Raise awareness of mental health needs of people in acute general hospital setting through discussion and collaborative working with staff of all levels and disciplines. Raise awareness of the mental health needs of the general population within the acute general hospital.
Provide support and advice for carers and families of people with mental health needs within the general hospital setting whenever possible. The Liaison Service is committed to the implementation of the Triangle of Care as fully as possible.
Work collaboratively with colleagues in the development of the Liaison Psychiatry Service.
Communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, families and carers.
Work positively and sensitively with challenging and hostile behaviors to enable therapeutic and productive outcome.
Have highly developed interpersonal skills, self-awareness and empathy to engage with others and provide an effective outcome.
Demonstrate the ability to negotiate and problem solve in complex situations where agreement is required or communicate clear decision making and rationale when agreement cannot be reached.
Provide comprehensive information based on assessment to inform the care, treatment, or discharge planning process of patients within the acute general hospital.
Demonstrate the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues within the Liaison Psychiatry Team and across other statutory and non-statutory organisations.
Keep accurate and contemporaneous electronic/written patient records and comply with professional and Trust record keeping policies including CPA.
Liaise with professionals from community services, who are involved in the patients care, adhering to the principles of the Personalised Care Framework.
Demonstrate the ability to adapt communication to take account of others needs.
Demonstrate ability to use IT systems effectively including email, clinical systems used by the team.
Act as a role model in providing a service for people with mental health problems for all staff within the acute general hospital.
Demonstrate the ability to analyse, often large amounts of complex information from a range of other specialists and assimilate these and their relevance to a persons mental health needs, formulate a clinical opinion including assessment of risk and advise on appropriate care plan.
Possess a good working knowledge of mental health legislation including Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty safeguards and use this in relation to advising and planning care, independently or with other professionals.
Assess the patients risk/psychiatric/psychological and emotional fitness for discharge from the hospital setting
Formulate a care pathway following assessment, with an appropriate onward referral to other NHS professionals, statutory and non-statutory services if necessary.
Demonstrate the ability to manage conflicting demands on time and the ability to prioritise clinical work effectively.
Demonstrate the ability to organise the work schedule and appropriate screening of referrals to the team each day in conjunction with colleagues, including medical staff. Where necessary there will be a focus on presentations to the ED. The post holder will need to be able to ensure that the needs of other referrals are not delayed due to ED work.
Deliver formal and informal training sessions on behalf of the team to other professionals with the acute general hospital setting.
Take responsibility for agreed clinical, managerial and strategic projects associated with the provision of the Liaison Psychiatry service. This will include planning, implementing, reviewing and revising these projects as necessary.
In the absence of a Band 7, take responsibility for the coordination of all activities within the clinical area or equivalent sphere. Also take responsibility for the management of the Team and patient care provided, to the agreed local and professional standards.
Undertake line management supervision and appraisal of other staff within the team where appropriate.
You will regularly be shift lead and will likely also take the lead in the team on certain aspects of team function.
Participate in the mentoring and education of a range of students on placement with the Team.
Participate in the planning, development and delivery of educational programmes and training sessions for a range of clinical staff within the working and learning environments.
Provide clinical supervision to colleagues and students as required
You will need to participate in CPD regularly and keep your mandatory training up to date. The post holder will proactively ensure they are receiving clinical supervision.
Be able to demonstrate IT skills, including keyboard use.
Show the ability to concentrate for sustained periods of time in often noisy environments with frequent interruption.
Be involved with patients who at times present with physical and verbal aggression due to ill health, distress and/or non-concordance with care. Post-holder will need to be aware of how to respond appropriately and safely, with consideration to the safety of themselves and others.
Have the ability to work effectively in a busy and chaotic working environment of the ED.
Have an awareness of the Physical challenges presented by disturbed patients who attend the Ed by their own free will or via the Police.
When required to, work without supervision and make autonomous clinical formulation and decisions in relation to the care, treatment and safe discharge of patients with complex mental health needs.
Demonstrate a commitment to the improvement of patient care and the understanding of the needs of older adults and will work collaboratively with others within the team and within mental health and acute hospital services as required, in relation to development of the service provided for this client group.
In the absence of the team manager take responsibility for the management of the team and patient care provided by the team to agreed local and national standards.
Support the team manager in the supervision, monitoring and appraisal of the performance of registered and non-registered staff within the team.
Exercise a duty of care in relation to use of the Organisations equipment and resources in a cost effective manner.
With team manager ensure that rota is maintained to enable service is operationally covered and where difficulties are identified in maintaining service provision that this is escalated to senior managers of the service in team managers absence.
Support the team manager in the recording of accurate clinical activity data.
Be responsible for working with others in maintaining safe physical environment and clinical systems and where risks to this are identified by them of ensuring that these are escalated in the appropriate manner.
Adhere to the Organisations risk management policies and protocols including use of the Trust incident electronic reporting system.
With the support of team manager identify own professional development needs and demonstrate achievement towards meeting these through their personal development plan.
Participate in the planning and delivery of training, formally and informally to acute general hospital staff in relation to the identification of, and care of people with mental health needs and associated subjects.
Please note that this Job Description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops, but such change will not take place without consultation between the post holder and his/her manager.
The post holder is required to conform to all NHS Plymouth policies and must attend any training sessions as required.
37.5 hours per week.
Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner willing to undertake AMHP training
Liaison Psychiatry at University Hospital Plymouth (UHP) is a fully commissioned CORE 24 service.
Liaison Psychiatry are looking for a suitably qualified practitioner with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure. Experience of working with adults of working age and older people is desirable but not essential. Liaison Psychiatry in Derriford provides a 24hr, 7 days a week provision and successful applicants will be expected to work various shift patterns on a rotational basis.
The specialist function of the team is to provide bio-psychosocial assessments for individuals aged 18 years and above within the Derriford Hospital footprint, either attending via the Emergency Department or being an in-patient within the hospital.
Following assessment, patients may be signposted to services in their local area (be that Plymouth, Cornwall, Devon or further afield). The team work with hospital staff to develop plans of care for those who may be staying in hospital for a little longer.
We welcome applications from Registered Nurses (RMN), OTs and Social Workers who have relevant experience (NMC/HCPC registrations required).
The successful candidate will be expected to undertake AMHP training and post successful completion will work approximately 20% with AMHP Duty.
As a member of the Liaison Psychiatry Team you will be expected to assess patients who are referred from the Emergency Department & ward areas within the acute general hospital.
The specialist function of the team is to provide bio-psychosocial assessments for individuals aged 18 yrs &above within the Derriford Hospital footprint, either attending via the Emergency Department or being an in-patient within the hospital. Patients seen may present with mental health difficulties eg. psychiatric crisis or an organic presentation such as a dementia/delirium
You will be expected to be able to make clear clinical decisions based on the analysis of, often complex, presenting problems. This can include being the decision maker in terms of discharge of patients experiencing mental health needs. You will be required at times to make clear autonomous decisions based on analysis of complex presenting problems &clinical judgement.
You will be able to demonstrate a high level of communication skills in terms of use of verbal, electronic &written formats.
You will be required to engage with patients who can be challenging &/or acutely distressed.
You will have Freedom to Act as a lone worker. Some autonomous working is expected.
The Liaison Psychiatry Service sustains Core 24 compliance
"please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility"
In conjunction with other team members screen all referrals received by the team.
Undertake holistic and comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessments incorporating assessment of mental state of patients referred to the service.
Utilise a range of highly specialised clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients and the clinical setting in which they are seen
Conduct risk assessments on all patients presenting to the service in line with CPA policy. The post holder will have highly developed risk assessment skills to manage complex presentations and challenging behaviors.
Advise ward nursing, medical and other professional staff on the management of patients and contribute to care planning to meet identified needs
Evaluate effectiveness of care interventions with all disciplines of staff, adjusting care plans where necessary.
Provide a consultation-liaison service to clinicians and clinical teams within the general hospital. This will include giving specialist advice on care, treatment and patients management issues.
Work in collaboration with colleagues in the promotion of care delivery and strategic objectives and taking responsibility/lead for specific areas of working e.g. liaison with police, drugs and alcohol, Safeguarding.
Refer and signpost people to appropriate mental health services as required both within and outside of the organisations area.
Work collaboratively with social care teams, discharge planning teams, onward care teams, community liaison teams and community mental health teams in devising appropriate discharge plans.
Deliver care that is evidenced based and reflecting current best practice.
Be accountable for own practice in accordance with NMC Code of Professional practice or HCPC relevant codes of practice.
Demonstrate sound understanding of the ethical and legal issues in caring for all adults attending the hospital. This will include Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (2005) issues as required.
Raise awareness of mental health needs of people in acute general hospital setting through discussion and collaborative working with staff of all levels and disciplines. Raise awareness of the mental health needs of the general population within the acute general hospital.
Provide support and advice for carers and families of people with mental health needs within the general hospital setting whenever possible. The Liaison Service is committed to the implementation of the Triangle of Care as fully as possible.
Work collaboratively with colleagues in the development of the Liaison Psychiatry Service.
Communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, families and carers.
Work positively and sensitively with challenging and hostile behaviors to enable therapeutic and productive outcome.
Have highly developed interpersonal skills, self-awareness and empathy to engage with others and provide an effective outcome.
Demonstrate the ability to negotiate and problem solve in complex situations where agreement is required or communicate clear decision making and rationale when agreement cannot be reached.
Provide comprehensive information based on assessment to inform the care, treatment, or discharge planning process of patients within the acute general hospital.
Demonstrate the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues within the Liaison Psychiatry Team and across other statutory and non-statutory organisations.
Keep accurate and contemporaneous electronic/written patient records and comply with professional and Trust record keeping policies including CPA.
Liaise with professionals from community services, who are involved in the patients care, adhering to the principles of the Personalised Care Framework.
Demonstrate the ability to adapt communication to take account of others needs.
Demonstrate ability to use IT systems effectively including email, clinical systems used by the team.
Act as a role model in providing a service for people with mental health problems for all staff within the acute general hospital.
Demonstrate the ability to analyse, often large amounts of complex information from a range of other specialists and assimilate these and their relevance to a persons mental health needs, formulate a clinical opinion including assessment of risk and advise on appropriate care plan.
Possess a good working knowledge of mental health legislation including Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty safeguards and use this in relation to advising and planning care, independently or with other professionals.
Assess the patients risk/psychiatric/psychological and emotional fitness for discharge from the hospital setting
Formulate a care pathway following assessment, with an appropriate onward referral to other NHS professionals, statutory and non-statutory services if necessary.
Demonstrate the ability to manage conflicting demands on time and the ability to prioritise clinical work effectively.
Demonstrate the ability to organise the work schedule and appropriate screening of referrals to the team each day in conjunction with colleagues, including medical staff. Where necessary there will be a focus on presentations to the ED. The post holder will need to be able to ensure that the needs of other referrals are not delayed due to ED work.
Deliver formal and informal training sessions on behalf of the team to other professionals with the acute general hospital setting.
Take responsibility for agreed clinical, managerial and strategic projects associated with the provision of the Liaison Psychiatry service. This will include planning, implementing, reviewing and revising these projects as necessary.
In the absence of a Band 7, take responsibility for the coordination of all activities within the clinical area or equivalent sphere. Also take responsibility for the management of the Team and patient care provided, to the agreed local and professional standards.
Undertake line management supervision and appraisal of other staff within the team where appropriate.
You will regularly be shift lead and will likely also take the lead in the team on certain aspects of team function.
Participate in the mentoring and education of a range of students on placement with the Team.
Participate in the planning, development and delivery of educational programmes and training sessions for a range of clinical staff within the working and learning environments.
Provide clinical supervision to colleagues and students as required
You will need to participate in CPD regularly and keep your mandatory training up to date. The post holder will proactively ensure they are receiving clinical supervision.
Be able to demonstrate IT skills, including keyboard use.
Show the ability to concentrate for sustained periods of time in often noisy environments with frequent interruption.
Be involved with patients who at times present with physical and verbal aggression due to ill health, distress and/or non-concordance with care. Post-holder will need to be aware of how to respond appropriately and safely, with consideration to the safety of themselves and others.
Have the ability to work effectively in a busy and chaotic working environment of the ED.
Have an awareness of the Physical challenges presented by disturbed patients who attend the Ed by their own free will or via the Police.
When required to, work without supervision and make autonomous clinical formulation and decisions in relation to the care, treatment and safe discharge of patients with complex mental health needs.
Demonstrate a commitment to the improvement of patient care and the understanding of the needs of older adults and will work collaboratively with others within the team and within mental health and acute hospital services as required, in relation to development of the service provided for this client group.
In the absence of the team manager take responsibility for the management of the team and patient care provided by the team to agreed local and national standards.
Support the team manager in the supervision, monitoring and appraisal of the performance of registered and non-registered staff within the team.
Exercise a duty of care in relation to use of the Organisations equipment and resources in a cost effective manner.
With team manager ensure that rota is maintained to enable service is operationally covered and where difficulties are identified in maintaining service provision that this is escalated to senior managers of the service in team managers absence.
Support the team manager in the recording of accurate clinical activity data.
Be responsible for working with others in maintaining safe physical environment and clinical systems and where risks to this are identified by them of ensuring that these are escalated in the appropriate manner.
Adhere to the Organisations risk management policies and protocols including use of the Trust incident electronic reporting system.
With the support of team manager identify own professional development needs and demonstrate achievement towards meeting these through their personal development plan.
Participate in the planning and delivery of training, formally and informally to acute general hospital staff in relation to the identification of, and care of people with mental health needs and associated subjects.
Please note that this Job Description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops, but such change will not take place without consultation between the post holder and his/her manager.
The post holder is required to conform to all NHS Plymouth policies and must attend any training sessions as required.
37.5 hours per week.
Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner willing to undertake AMHP training
Liaison Psychiatry at University Hospital Plymouth (UHP) is a fully commissioned CORE 24 service.
Liaison Psychiatry are looking for a suitably qualified practitioner with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure. Experience of working with adults of working age and older people is desirable but not essential. Liaison Psychiatry in Derriford provides a 24hr, 7 days a week provision and successful applicants will be expected to work various shift patterns on a rotational basis.
The specialist function of the team is to provide bio-psychosocial assessments for individuals aged 18 years and above within the Derriford Hospital footprint, either attending via the Emergency Department or being an in-patient within the hospital.
Following assessment, patients may be signposted to services in their local area (be that Plymouth, Cornwall, Devon or further afield). The team work with hospital staff to develop plans of care for those who may be staying in hospital for a little longer.
We welcome applications from Registered Nurses (RMN), OTs and Social Workers who have relevant experience (NMC/HCPC registrations required).
The successful candidate will be expected to undertake AMHP training and post successful completion will work approximately 20% with AMHP Duty.
As a member of the Liaison Psychiatry Team you will be expected to assess patients who are referred from the Emergency Department & ward areas within the acute general hospital.
The specialist function of the team is to provide bio-psychosocial assessments for individuals aged 18 yrs &above within the Derriford Hospital footprint, either attending via the Emergency Department or being an in-patient within the hospital. Patients seen may present with mental health difficulties eg. psychiatric crisis or an organic presentation such as a dementia/delirium
You will be expected to be able to make clear clinical decisions based on the analysis of, often complex, presenting problems. This can include being the decision maker in terms of discharge of patients experiencing mental health needs. You will be required at times to make clear autonomous decisions based on analysis of complex presenting problems &clinical judgement.
You will be able to demonstrate a high level of communication skills in terms of use of verbal, electronic &written formats.
You will be required to engage with patients who can be challenging &/or acutely distressed.
You will have Freedom to Act as a lone worker. Some autonomous working is expected.
The Liaison Psychiatry Service sustains Core 24 compliance
"please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility"
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