Mental Health Liaison Nurse

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

BDCFT is looking for enthusiastic and innovative Band 6 Mental Health Liaison Nurse to be an active part of a team of trained and competent professionals in liaison Mental Health, who deliver a timely and compassionate assessment to patients in care homes.

The successful applicants will need to be an excellent motivated practitioner, able to work within Care home environments, respecting their views and methods, while simultaneously promoting Mental Health and collaborative working. In addition, close relationships and partnership working will be essential with other key stake holders, General Practitioners, Care Home managers and above all the service users and their families.

Other key areas of work that the applicant will need to focus on are, Deprescribing of Anti-psychotic medications for patients in care homes, working closely with Pharmacy Technician and Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work in line with the antipsychotic guidance and deliver for the trust a reduction in antipsychotic use for the region.

The role will be toeffectively implement all the above, maintaining Trust values and a high enthusiasm for quality service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose:

To provide a high standard of nursing care for service users within the Care Home Liaison in Bradford, Airedale and Craven

The Mental Health Nurse will visit the care homes and review all patients that are on an anti-psychotic medication, carry out through assessments and discussions with the MDT and look to titrate off antipsychotic medication while supporting the patient and care home.

Closing Date: 29th January 2024

Shortlisting Date: 30th January 2024

Interview Date: 5th February 2024

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

22 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year Per annum Pro Rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

453-24-5950674

Job locations

Bradford Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service

Smith Lane

Bradford

BD9 6DA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Mental Health Nurse
Mental health care/treatment relevant to service.
Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces.
Working within a multicultural framework.

Desirable

Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff

Experience

Essential

older peoples mental health
care home experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Mental Health Nurse
Mental health care/treatment relevant to service.
Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces.
Working within a multicultural framework.

Desirable

Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff

Experience

Essential

older peoples mental health
care home experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).