In this rewarding and dynamic role, you'll have the chance to work across a spectrum of ages and conditions while collaborating with families and carers to provide holistic support. With opportunities for teaching and professional development, you’ll help shape the future of mental health care. We value a supportive working environment where your wellbeing matters, offering excellent benefits, from generous leave entitlements to flexible working arrangements. Let your career flourish with us in a role that not only challenges you but also brings immense job satisfaction. Join us and help create a brighter future for those in need of care.
We are recruiting for Band 6 Registered Mental Health Practitioners (Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker) to join our team. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care.
Are you a Mental Health Practitioner? Do you have a high level of skill in the assessment and care of people who present to ED in mental health crisis and those who have mental health needs during their inpatient stay in the acute hospital?
The MH&LD Liaison Team provides assessments, advice, and reasonable adjustments for people with mental health needs and learning disabilities accessing treatment at St Mary's Hospital. We aim to improve the parity of care for people of all ages with mental health and learning disabilities in the acute hospital and work with their family and carers to ensure they have the best possible care and treatment.
The MH&LD Liaison Team works across the full age spectrum and provides a 24-hour service across seven days of the week. Additionally, MH&LD Liaison Team collaborates with Ambulance service to support people with mental health needs and learning disabilities in the community through the Mental Health Rapid Response Vehicle service (MHRRV).
This position is suitable for a highly motivated, compassionate person who can work under pressure. We therefore welcome applicants with existing crisis and liaison experience but also those who have experience working with older adults, HTTs, CMHTs or mental health inpatients.
You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to interact at all levels. There will be opportunities for you to participate in the teaching and training of health professionals in ED, medical and surgical wards. This is a challenging but rewarding role, within a busy and evolving multidisciplinary service.
We can offer great opportunities learning, professional development and research in liaison services. There is access to training opportunities locally and through the Open University, as well as with mainland universities such as those in Portsmouth, Southampton, and Bournemouth. We offer a supportive working environment, we have a robust appraisal and supervision policy and to assist you to realize your potential and achieve a greater degree of job satisfaction, as well as the usual NHS discounts, pension, salary, generous annual leave entitlement and relocation expenses, subject to meeting criteria.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone -- if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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