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Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Braintree, CM7 9AE |
| Company: | Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7188045/364-A-8980 |
Summary
The Gables Specialist Mental Health Team is a multidisciplinary service which provides comprehensive assessments and evidence-based treatments for adults experiencing a range of mental health disorders who are also presenting with risks that require management and support of a multi-disciplinary team.
The role of the Community and Inpatient Liaison practitioner will be to support care coordinators and the clinical team to interface with inpatient wards in order to support the flow of patient’s between inpatient and community services and to facilitate discharges from the inpatient service into the community. The role would also include supporting with discharging patients who have been open to the community services whose treatment has been completed to improve the flow and capacity within the Specialist Mental Health Team
The role of the Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner would allow care coordinators to maintain the therapeutic input with their patients while more practical tasks are taken on by the Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner. This would involve supporting with care planning, undertaking care act assessments, capacity assessments and relevant paperwork for panel presentations to either the local authority or the 117 panels.
It would be expected that the Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner would largely attend ward reviews, attend professionals meetings, liaise and interface with care coordinators, discharge coordinators and inpatient ward staff in order tocontribute towards safe and effective working relationships with other teams, services, and organisations. The Community and Inpatient Liaison role would also support discharges from community services by identifying suitable patients and facilitating discharges for those who no longer require secondary care services.
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
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What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
• To support the existing community staff to develop their knowledge and understanding of available treatment and support options, both within EPUT services, and with the wider services available within the local areas that the team cover
• To support the community processes that facilitate flow and capacity through the system from inpatient to The Gables SMHT and from The Gables SMHT into the primary care domains.
• To support care coordinators in managing the practical elements of discharge planning from inpatient environments including, care act assessments, 117 panel presentations etc. to reduce delays and improve working relationships between services, while allowing the care coordinator to maintain a therapeutic relationship with inpatients and maintain their visits with other patients in the community.
• Identify, assess and manage clinical and non-clinical risks / hazards in your area through the completion of the relevant risk assessments and the implementation of risk treatment plans for inclusion in the local and Trust’s risk registers through the Risk Management department
• Provide supervision and annual appraisals to junior members of staff and oversee the Hub compliance for supervision and appraisal performance
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025