Mental Health Liaison Nurse
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7LJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9160-470500-01 |
Summary
Role summary 1. To assess inpatients referred to the Neuropsychiatry Service in The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust (WCFT) and Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) including spoke units at Broadgreen (Phoenix) and St Helens (Seddon Suite). 2. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring agreed interventions are employed on optimal management of patients with mental health needs in general neurosurgical/neurology and rehabilitation units. 3. To participate in sessions of education and training of management of mental health and brain injury problems in The Walton Centre and CMRN. 4. To contribute to the rehabilitation network coordinators work by assessing patients with mental health needs prior to their transfer to rehabilitation units and to advise on gatekeeping. 5. To operate in a role that is therapeutic in nature developing effective relationships with Service Users, in a variety of inpatient settings. 6. To support the neuropsychiatry specialist nurse when advising senior nursing and management staff on a range of areas including mental capacity, management of challenging behaviour, risk minimisation and discharge. 8. To work within the guidelines, policies and procedures in area of neuropsychiatry and mental health within the Rehabilitation network and the Walton Centre. 9. To carry out duties within the service as an autonomous practitioner. 10. This position is an 18.5 hours per week, permanent post, working hours 08.00-16.00 / 12.00-20.00 across 7 days. Key responsibilities 1. To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within the inpatient Neurological wards, Neurosurgical wards and Rehabilitation units. 2. To coordinate the care of inpatient service users with mental health needs, carrying out their assessment, follow up and liaising with nursing and medical staff and therapists regarding optimal management. 3. To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a plan of action. To attend family meeting and other reviews as required. 4. To ensure a seamless approach by liaising with other professionals as required e.g. CRHT, ward based staff, therapists, and community services. 5. To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately. To monitor and work with Multidisciplinary team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality. 6. To participate in rehabilitation and sometimes other multi-disciplinary team meetings as required advising the wider therapy team regarding service user presentation, including physical health care aspects, and the effectiveness of core strategies of care and contribute to decision making. 7. To participate in the development of care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and independence to help them to return to the community in their chosen setting. 8. Work with senior ward nurses to ensure that the safety and security needs of service users and carers, their relatives and friends, Trust colleagues and persons visiting any care or domestic settings, are maintained, being mindful of appropriate standards and relevant policies and procedures, e.g. infection control. 9. To ensure own work is appropriately recorded. 10. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills established through training and experience to impart sensitive information e.g. diagnosis or symptoms to service users and their families. To offer support to other staff to do this. 11. To use skills established through training and experience to communicate with members of neurology, neurosurgical and rehabilitation network teams in the implementation of change and in the interest of good, cohesive team working 12. To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, physical, cognitive or psychiatric symptoms in service users or where there is resistance in staff. This may also be necessary when English is not the first language. 13. To use skills established through training and experience to give and receive information, adhering to the Caldicott guidelines, to other individuals with regards to a service users care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust. 14. To have a knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983) and also Mental Capacity Act/ Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. To support service users and their carers when these acts are being used to detain the service user. To support staff involved in the application of the acts, ensuring that they are aware of and fulfilling their duties. 15. To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record, which in all centres are hand written notes. Supervise and monitor the entries made through performance management and audit. 16. To act as a mentor to junior staff and therapists. 17. To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission. 18. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken. 19. To participate in service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions. 20. To react pro-actively in cases of inpatient service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation.