Senior Liaison Mental Health Practitioner

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Job overview

Are you a Qualified Mental Health Professional looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a team that will help you to develop and achieve your goals? Oldham Liaison mental health is recruiting for a senior mental health liaison practitioner

You'll join an innovating team thriving to provide a high-quality service, ensuring patients receive a comprehensive assessment, onward referral and safety netted when the attend A&E in a mental health crisis, admitted on the wards or detained on S136.

Working in the LMHT you will receive all age referrals from A&E, hospital wards or section 136 from the police. Referrals will be assessed, and care planned for admission, discharge and signpost to services that can meet the needs of the individual. For service users presenting with symptoms of a severe and enduring illness, and/or risks to self or others, you will complete a comprehensive mental health assessment and risk assessment to ensure that risks are managed and on-going supported is provided.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities. this is not exhaustive
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Liaison team to deliver an effective and efficient response to referrals from the acute trust, providing clinical assessments and interventions focusing on relapse prevention, early discharge and improved quality of life for patients referred.
• Be expected to undertake mental health assessments for people attending the Emergency Department, offering highly developed clinical and risk assessments and managements plans
• Provide a service to the wards within the general hospital, assessing individuals
with a range of complex physical and mental health needs. This would include both functional and organic illnesses of later life in addition to younger people
• Provide support and training to acute hospital staff regarding recognising mental health conditions and appropriate management and onward referral pathways
• Provide information and clinical support to police and ambulance staff in order to help them make appropriate pathway decisions
• Provide support and care for individuals brought to an identified Place of Safety under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and co-ordinate the assessment process.

Working for our organisation

Oldham Liaison Mental Health is leading the way in delivering high quality, safe, effective and evidence based best practice assessments and support for patients in A&E and on medical wards. The team is currently working towards getting accredited by The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network.

You will be joining a team of experience practitioners willing to support your learning and development needs, offering flexibility for work life balance and with a strong desire to maintain staff wellbeing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is not exhaustive
• To have the ability to recognise and work within your own limitations and raise any concerns to senior staff
• To be able to prioritise workload, completing the necessary tasks within the available time
• To participate in service planning, evaluation and development
• To comply with Trust Uniform Policy including the principle of 'bare below the elbows'
• In the absence of the clinical lead, act as shift co-ordinator and take responsibility or referral triaging and management, planning and allocating the workload on a day to day basis.
• To deal appropriately with clinical incidents, complaints etc from patients,
relatives and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional registration in health or social care with up to date accreditation

Desirable criteria

• Additional training relevant to the role
• Experience in risk assessment

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of national legislation (including MHA and MCA), guidelines and evidence based practice relevant to role.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and holistic assessment practices

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of liaison role with A&E department and medical wards, common issues and presentations

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Experience using holistic assessment approaches and complex risk management
• Excellent organisational, problem solving/prioritisation skills and able to work in a time pressured manner.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership skills/Abilities

work related circumsyances

Essential criteria

• Flexible working across division if necessary
• To be able to work a range of shifts over a 24 hour, 7 day period on a rotation basis

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

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

• Job Description (PDF, 137.1KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 115.6KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)