Job summary
- Are you looking for a challenging role that will see you provide specialist mental health care treatment to people in Torbay?
- Would you like to be part of a new team based in a district general hospital, helping to shape how we deliver services to those who need them?
- Have you ever wanted to experience what its like to live and work in one of the UKs most beautiful coastal areas?
We are looking for Senior Mental Health Practitioner to work in our new Liaison Psychiatry Service in Torbay Hospital. Working on a shift based (including weekends and nights) you will play an essential role in providing 24/7 specialist mental health services to those who need them.
Based within Torbay Hospital, you will become part of a multi-disciplinary team creating care plans and strategies that deliver recovery-focused care for people with complex mental health needs.
You will be a strong confident and capable senior mental health practitioner capable of making decisions that change lives. This post is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to gain experience and undertake training and development opportunities to help them establish a strong career within an award winning mental health trust.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for taking the lead for mental health services in Torbay Hospital, managing a busy caseload and making decisions that affect lives.
It will be your job to make specialist mental health assessments, and devise interventions that will help people to recover. You will play a key role in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working with multiple agencies on a daily basis.
You will be confident working without supervision, with the knowledge to devise individual recovery plans for the people you see. Its important that you can communicate effectively, not only with your colleagues, but the people you care for, their families and carers. You will be at the centre of their care.
You will be an experienced mental health professional with a professional mental health qualification (RMN, CQSW / ASW, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT)
We will help you grow in the role, and can provide a range of training opportunities, including our respected preceptorship programme, that can help you develop the skills you need to thrive in the job.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
Our values
We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The
Liaison Psychiatry Service provides a 24/7 in and out of hours comprehensive
service to patients, clinicians and carers at the local District General
Hospital (DGH). This includes specialist mental health assessment and
intervention to people of all ages from the age of 18 who present or, are
admitted to the DGH.
We
provide a specialist consultation-liaison service to referring clinicians and
clinical teams, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex
cases, and providing both formal and informal education to qualified and
unqualified staff, and offer a broad range of specialist psychosocial
treatments for individual inpatients.
Staff
within the service are also representing the Devon Partnership Trust in the
general hospital setting and will play a vital role in communicating and
maintaining a good working relationship between the two organizations.
Through
consultation, assessment and interventions, the Liaison Psychiatry Service aims
to;
Arrive at a formulation which will
identify the correct care pathway & ensure this is implemented
Improve the quality of mental health
care for all patients
Improve quality of life for both
patients and carers
Identify and manage risk
Reduce the length of stay in the
general hospital
Prevent hospital admissions
Reduce the number of incidents and
complaints
Measure improvements of health
outcomes
Determine service needs
A
key aim of the service is to contribute to the acute care pathway, ensuring
that those persons who present to the DGH receive a timely specialist mental
health assessment by a specialist mental health worker. A significant proportion of these
presentations will be those who present with acts of self harm and suicidal
behaviours.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
- Contribute to the team and engage with a wide range of stakeholders
including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary
sector agencies.
Impart complex and sensitive information to:
- Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and
review
- Multi disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well
coordinated care
- Primary care teams regarding client care
- External agencies also involved in the provision of care eg: voluntary
and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc
- Services user/carer groups
- Liaise with a wide range of other professions and agencies.
- Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the
services including the handling of clinical enquiries.
- Present information, some of which may be contentious, to patients and
their families/carers.
Planning and Organisational Skills
- Attend management and professional meetings as directed by their line
manager and professional lead.
- Responsible for planning and co-ordinating own day to day work load in
collaboration with the needs of the service users and the wider needs of the
service. This requires excellent
prioritisation skills.
- Plan and organise case conferences liaising with other agencies as
required to meet the needs of their clients.
-
Ensure that interventions
are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where
dependent on other external agencies
Analytical
and Judgemental Skills
- Undertake bio-psycho-social assessments, developing
a working formulation and diagnosis which will identify onward care
pathways. As part of the
bio-psycho-social assessment completion of risk assessment and formulation will
determine risk management plans.
- Further assessments/reviews may be required and
adjustments made to care pathways where appropriate.
- Understands and recognises own limitations and seeks supervision when
necessary.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- Participate in research and development in line with
service delivery & development .
Freedom to Act
- Work without
direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions.
- When tasks are
delegated, ensure that the person you have delegated these tasks to is
appropriately skilled to undertake the tasks.
- Work within
the operational policies and service specifications of the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care,
Treatment and Therapy
- Responsible for developing care whilst service users are in the DGH. This
will include assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation.
- Ensuring active involvement of service users and their carers.
- Triage/prioritise referrals by assessing and advising on eligibility
criteria.
- Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in
relation to the care of the patient.
- Participate in safeguarding adults & children.
- Act in an advisory and collaborative role in interpretation of clinical,
professional and technical policies relating to adult mental health.
- Appraise current practices and standards in light of new research
findings and introduce evidence based techniques as appropriate.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development
Implementation
- Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team and
implement the findings.
- Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements in order to
ensure the quality of the service provided.
- Participate in the development of Mental Health Services.
- Work collaboratively on the formulation of, and review of policies,
standards, guidelines and procedures within DPT and the DGH.
- Attend and participate in relevant groups to include policy
implementation, networking , peer review to promote benchmarking and sharing of
best practices.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other
Resources
- Responsible for care of own equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision,
Training, HR Advice and Management
- Supervision of junior qualified / non-qualified staff.
- Provide clinical supervision.
- Co-ordinate the activity of the team and facilitate handover meetings.
- Provide mentorship to students allocated to the team.
- Take a clinical lead in the absence of the team leader / practice lead.
- Participate in clinical & managerial supervision as well as annual
PDR.
- Participate in team staff support.
- Support staff within the DGH to holistically manage people presenting
with complex mental health issues and offer appropriate therapeutic
interventions.
- To actively participate in producing and delivering training packages to
our colleagues in the DGH and acting as a point of reference as required.
- Act as a positive role model for other staff and students both within DPT
and the DGH.
- Keep up to date with all Core & Essential Training requirements.
Responsibility for Information Resources and
Administrative Duties
- Maintain up to date clinical records in a
timely and accurate manner in line with standard operating procedures.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- The postholder works towards complying with the core competencies for
mental health liaison practitioners as described in the Competency Framework
for Liaison Mental Health Nursing.
Professional Duties
- Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery.
- Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and
understandable for service users and carers, working to the principles of the
functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the
standards and values set out in them.
- Work co-operatively with staff colleagues within the Acute Hospital,
other parts of the mental health services, primary care & other statutory
& non-statutory organisations.
- Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, who are entitled to
receive safe and competent care. The
Service User wishes, feelings, values and beliefs should be taken into
consideration as well as the views of the people close to them.
- Take personal accountability for your own practice. This means that you are answerable for your
actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another
professional in accordance with the NMC Professional Code of Conduct
- Ensure that you remain professional and competent by participating in
your own and others clinical supervision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The
Liaison Psychiatry Service provides a 24/7 in and out of hours comprehensive
service to patients, clinicians and carers at the local District General
Hospital (DGH). This includes specialist mental health assessment and
intervention to people of all ages from the age of 18 who present or, are
admitted to the DGH.
We
provide a specialist consultation-liaison service to referring clinicians and
clinical teams, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex
cases, and providing both formal and informal education to qualified and
unqualified staff, and offer a broad range of specialist psychosocial
treatments for individual inpatients.
Staff
within the service are also representing the Devon Partnership Trust in the
general hospital setting and will play a vital role in communicating and
maintaining a good working relationship between the two organizations.
Through
consultation, assessment and interventions, the Liaison Psychiatry Service aims
to;
Arrive at a formulation which will
identify the correct care pathway & ensure this is implemented
Improve the quality of mental health
care for all patients
Improve quality of life for both
patients and carers
Identify and manage risk
Reduce the length of stay in the
general hospital
Prevent hospital admissions
Reduce the number of incidents and
complaints
Measure improvements of health
outcomes
Determine service needs
A
key aim of the service is to contribute to the acute care pathway, ensuring
that those persons who present to the DGH receive a timely specialist mental
health assessment by a specialist mental health worker. A significant proportion of these
presentations will be those who present with acts of self harm and suicidal
behaviours.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
- Contribute to the team and engage with a wide range of stakeholders
including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary
sector agencies.
Impart complex and sensitive information to:
- Patients and families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and
review
- Multi disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well
coordinated care
- Primary care teams regarding client care
- External agencies also involved in the provision of care eg: voluntary
and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc
- Services user/carer groups
- Liaise with a wide range of other professions and agencies.
- Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the
services including the handling of clinical enquiries.
- Present information, some of which may be contentious, to patients and
their families/carers.
Planning and Organisational Skills
- Attend management and professional meetings as directed by their line
manager and professional lead.
- Responsible for planning and co-ordinating own day to day work load in
collaboration with the needs of the service users and the wider needs of the
service. This requires excellent
prioritisation skills.
- Plan and organise case conferences liaising with other agencies as
required to meet the needs of their clients.
-
Ensure that interventions
are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where
dependent on other external agencies
Analytical
and Judgemental Skills
- Undertake bio-psycho-social assessments, developing
a working formulation and diagnosis which will identify onward care
pathways. As part of the
bio-psycho-social assessment completion of risk assessment and formulation will
determine risk management plans.
- Further assessments/reviews may be required and
adjustments made to care pathways where appropriate.
- Understands and recognises own limitations and seeks supervision when
necessary.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- Participate in research and development in line with
service delivery & development .
Freedom to Act
- Work without
direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions.
- When tasks are
delegated, ensure that the person you have delegated these tasks to is
appropriately skilled to undertake the tasks.
- Work within
the operational policies and service specifications of the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care,
Treatment and Therapy
- Responsible for developing care whilst service users are in the DGH. This
will include assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation.
- Ensuring active involvement of service users and their carers.
- Triage/prioritise referrals by assessing and advising on eligibility
criteria.
- Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in
relation to the care of the patient.
- Participate in safeguarding adults & children.
- Act in an advisory and collaborative role in interpretation of clinical,
professional and technical policies relating to adult mental health.
- Appraise current practices and standards in light of new research
findings and introduce evidence based techniques as appropriate.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development
Implementation
- Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team and
implement the findings.
- Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements in order to
ensure the quality of the service provided.
- Participate in the development of Mental Health Services.
- Work collaboratively on the formulation of, and review of policies,
standards, guidelines and procedures within DPT and the DGH.
- Attend and participate in relevant groups to include policy
implementation, networking , peer review to promote benchmarking and sharing of
best practices.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other
Resources
- Responsible for care of own equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision,
Training, HR Advice and Management
- Supervision of junior qualified / non-qualified staff.
- Provide clinical supervision.
- Co-ordinate the activity of the team and facilitate handover meetings.
- Provide mentorship to students allocated to the team.
- Take a clinical lead in the absence of the team leader / practice lead.
- Participate in clinical & managerial supervision as well as annual
PDR.
- Participate in team staff support.
- Support staff within the DGH to holistically manage people presenting
with complex mental health issues and offer appropriate therapeutic
interventions.
- To actively participate in producing and delivering training packages to
our colleagues in the DGH and acting as a point of reference as required.
- Act as a positive role model for other staff and students both within DPT
and the DGH.
- Keep up to date with all Core & Essential Training requirements.
Responsibility for Information Resources and
Administrative Duties
- Maintain up to date clinical records in a
timely and accurate manner in line with standard operating procedures.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- The postholder works towards complying with the core competencies for
mental health liaison practitioners as described in the Competency Framework
for Liaison Mental Health Nursing.
Professional Duties
- Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery.
- Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and
understandable for service users and carers, working to the principles of the
functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the
standards and values set out in them.
- Work co-operatively with staff colleagues within the Acute Hospital,
other parts of the mental health services, primary care & other statutory
& non-statutory organisations.
- Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, who are entitled to
receive safe and competent care. The
Service User wishes, feelings, values and beliefs should be taken into
consideration as well as the views of the people close to them.
- Take personal accountability for your own practice. This means that you are answerable for your
actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another
professional in accordance with the NMC Professional Code of Conduct
- Ensure that you remain professional and competent by participating in
your own and others clinical supervision.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience of acute mental health issues within working age and Older adults.
- An understanding of the Care Programme Approach / Local Mental Health Care Pathways / Mental Health Act / Mental Health Capacity Act & DOLS requirements
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Able to produce accurate, concise & well written reports.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professions from various settings.
- Able to prioritise work to reflect change in needs.
- Able to work collaboratively with clients, carers, relatives and referrers to ensure safe and effective outcomes
- Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner without direct supervision
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Biopsychosocial assessment, leading to formulation and planning.
- Ability to manage risk
Desirable
- Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification eg: RMN, CQSW / ASW, BSc/Diploma in OT
- A current registration with a professional body ie NMC.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism.
- Clinical Supervision qualification.
- Mentorship qualification.
- IT Skills.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area to meet the demands of the role.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Providing clinical supervision.
- Assessment experience (particularly mental health & risk).
Desirable
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
- Participation in user involvement in services
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience of acute mental health issues within working age and Older adults.
- An understanding of the Care Programme Approach / Local Mental Health Care Pathways / Mental Health Act / Mental Health Capacity Act & DOLS requirements
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Able to produce accurate, concise & well written reports.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professions from various settings.
- Able to prioritise work to reflect change in needs.
- Able to work collaboratively with clients, carers, relatives and referrers to ensure safe and effective outcomes
- Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner without direct supervision
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Biopsychosocial assessment, leading to formulation and planning.
- Ability to manage risk
Desirable
- Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification eg: RMN, CQSW / ASW, BSc/Diploma in OT
- A current registration with a professional body ie NMC.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism.
- Clinical Supervision qualification.
- Mentorship qualification.
- IT Skills.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area to meet the demands of the role.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
- Providing clinical supervision.
- Assessment experience (particularly mental health & risk).
Desirable
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
- Participation in user involvement in services
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).