Community Mental Health Liaison Practitioner | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Oldham, OL1 2JH |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6229305/311-O523-24-A |
Summary
We are looking to recruit a Permanent part time dynamic and experienced Band 6 RMN to join our Older Peoples Liaison Mental Health Service. The service aims to provide older people in Oldham with mental health problems, care and support closer to home, avoiding admissions to secondary services and long-term care wherever possible, and sits between primary care services and secondary services . This is a team which is evolving in its role as Oldham works its way towards developing our Living Well services.
The service supports patients referred either by the acute hospital or GP via living well hub and community-based cluster teams with a suspected or actual mental health problem. The team is comprised of a group of Band 6 RMN’s and you would work as part of the MDT and undertake duties within the Older People’s Liaison Team including assessment, care planning, triage and interventions as specified within individual care plans.
The current postholder will leave the service at the beginning of June at which time the successful candidate will be able to start immediately
An exciting opportunity has arisen for passionate and dedicated RMNs to join the Community MH liaison service within Oldham as services gradually move to a neighbourhood cluster model. As the service model is changing this will mean that there may be changes which affect this post - it will remain however a permanent post
This service will provide mental health expertise within the multidisciplinary cluster teams and community enablement services. You will be working with a wide range of colleagues from health and social care and other statutory and voluntary agencies to support individuals in the community or those within the hospital discharge, enablement and intermediate care pathway.
The service operates Monday to Friday and you will work predominantly with, and have a passion for supporting older adults. You will be providing full mental health and risk assessments and short term interventions with individuals in collaboration with their support network. You will be working within the multidisciplinary team with a strong focus on improving quality of life and preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and long term care. Where required you will signpost people in to secondary care mental health services.
You will be an autonomous and confident practitioner who is able to think outside the box and put individuals and their carers first. In return you can expect all the support needed to undertake this rewarding role.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small dedicated team of band 6 nurses who provide nursing care and treatment to patients living in the community.
You will have the opportunity to work closely with other teams in the older peoples services across the Trust and in social services.
You will be given lots of support and opportunity to develop within the service.
Job Description
Post: Community Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
Band: 6
Responsible to: Clinical Lead
Main Contacts: Community Clusters, Primary Care Services and Multi Disciplinary teams, Pennine Acute NHS Trust, MH
services, Independent and 3rd Sector Providers
Job Summary
You will work in a senior liaison capacity within the local cluster teams to support patients experiencing mental health problems within the community. The service will
operate and be co-located within borough cluster care teams and will operate Monday to Friday 9-5.
To provide specialist nursing advice and assessment skills in conjunction with health, community and social care staff in order to fully develop appropriate interventions
and treatment plans for people with mental health problems.
To carry out comprehensive risk assessments of mental health needs and have knowledge and experience of risks within the community.
To act in an advisory capacity in the delivery of clinical and social interventions to this client group in relation to referring on to other agencies and discharge.
To supervise the work of junior staff and provide clinical advice and support to the team.
It is expected that the post holder will deliver care in accordance with all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures, the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and community care legislation.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical Work
To work across cluster teams and the discharge / enablement pathway to provide specialist mental health nursing advice and a joint assessment service
Triage all referrals that are made to the service and allocate clinical priority.
To work in close liaison with staff within health and social care in upholding and implementing clinical standards for the care of people with mental health needs within the community setting
To carry out a thorough assessment of the service users’ current mental health needs, including risk assessment, psychological needs and cognitive functioning
To demonstrate the ability to make decisions in relation to the clinical management of individual patients and make critical clinical judgements in relation to mental health and care provision within the community setting.
To be able to assess and manage clients presenting with co-morbidities of physical and mental health needs including the impact of medication.
To model appropriate methods of communication and care delivery to staff within the cluster teams
Contribute to making decisions regarding client care in consultation other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To undertake short term nursing interventions and/or co-ordinate transition of care to other specialist support.
To utilise counselling skills when communicating with clients and carers in relation to assessment, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To make onward referral to the most appropriate service to meet the individual patient’s needs.
To identify the need for protection in line with Safeguarding Adults Policy and comply with local procedures.
To liaise and negotiate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies to ensure the best possible service is provided to service users and carers.
To evaluate systematically and record, outcomes of mental health treatment plans, adapting care on the basis of these outcomes.
To involve family and carers in the assessment and care planning with service users consent.
To provide education and appropriate self-help resources to patients specific to individual needs.
To maintain accurate and up to date clinical documentation on all service user contacts, ensuring confidentiality at all times.
To have a thorough understanding of functional and organic illness and management strategies to support these.
To possess a sound knowledge of issues surrounding the management of violence and aggression and to be able to diffuse potentially difficult and volatile situations.
To provide advice and information to non-mental health trained social care staff regarding the management of patients with mental health problems..
To observe and practice within the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act.
To maintain professional awareness by keeping abreast of changing trends in clinical / professional practice.
To be aware of professional accountability, with due regard your professional Code of Conduct.
Research and Audit
To ensure that the NCRS records are efficiently maintained.
To contribute to audits as required,
To provide relevant data as required in line with performance monitoring targets.
To participate in research opportunities as directed by team or service manager.
Education and Training
To contribute to the on-going training and development of non- mental health trained social care staff with regard to mental health issues.
To have effective presentation skills in order to positively promote the social care liaison team
To provide mentorship, education and training to learners from a range of professional backgrounds.
To attend mandatory and other training as identified as relevant to the post and necessary to ensure safe effective practice
Service Development
To participate in monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of service delivery and contribute to developments relevant to mental health services.
Management
To provide clinical and peer supervision, advice and support to team members across the divisional team.
To deal appropriately with clinical incidents, complaints etc from patients, relatives and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy.
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024