Community Practitioner inWhitehaven inWhitehaven PUBLISHED 3 DEC 2023

Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum  PERMANENT 

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 3rd October 2024

Closing date : 17th October 2024

We welcome your application.

Within West Cumbria we have exciting opportunities to work within our established Psychiatric Liaison Service. This post offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to come into services at a time when Psychiatric Liaison is high on the national agenda with regard to being embedded in all emergency departments/ wider hospital. Current drivers in services the longer term plan/ treat as one/ side by side etc. are based around Psychiatric Liaison Services. This is a full-time permanent position.

The service provides all psychiatric input to the Acute Hospital for those presenting with a mental health problem, be it solely in the Emergency Department or as a comorbid presentation on any of the significant number of wards . Specialty areas include

  • Young people, those aged 16-18
  • Maternity
  • Neurology
  • Drug and Alcohol
  • Eating Disorders
  • Dementia and Delirium
  • Significant incidents of self harm
  • People subject to the criminal justice system
  • People presenting in mental health crisis
  • People with learning disabilities
  • Student mental health presentations

The service requires working across a 24 hour shift system. A. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a continuously developing service that is striving to be the best in the country.

Liaison staff providing comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health assessments.

We have a supportive MDT each day

Providing psychological interventions to patients within the acute hospital

Liaising with professional's involved in the person's care.

Providing training and education to acute staff.

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 3rd October 2024

Closing date : 17th October 2024

We welcome your application.

Within West Cumbria we have exciting opportunities to work within our established Psychiatric Liaison Service. This post offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to come into services at a time when Psychiatric Liaison is high on the national agenda with regard to being embedded in all emergency departments/ wider hospital. Current drivers in services the longer term plan/ treat as one/ side by side etc. are based around Psychiatric Liaison Services. This is a full-time permanent position.

The service provides all psychiatric input to the Acute Hospital for those presenting with a mental health problem, be it solely in the Emergency Department or as a comorbid presentation on any of the significant number of wards . Specialty areas include

  • Young people, those aged 16-18
  • Maternity
  • Neurology
  • Drug and Alcohol
  • Eating Disorders
  • Dementia and Delirium
  • Significant incidents of self harm
  • People subject to the criminal justice system
  • People presenting in mental health crisis
  • People with learning disabilities
  • Student mental health presentations

The service requires working across a 24 hour shift system. A. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a continuously developing service that is striving to be the best in the country.

Liaison staff providing comprehensive biopsychosocial mental health assessments.

We have a supportive MDT each day

Providing psychological interventions to patients within the acute hospital

Liaising with professional's involved in the person's care.

Providing training and education to acute staff.



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