Older Adult Liaison Team leader - Lambeth
| Posting date: | 29 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0736 |
Summary
For more detailed job description, please see attached JD. ClinicalTo assess patients and supervise a specialist liaison service to people with mental health problems over the age of 65 who are being treated within GSTT.To provide strong and decisive clinical leadership to all staff within the team and work effectively as part of a MDT.To respond to referral and requests for advice in a professional and positive manner.To provide face to face assessments and consultations with service users, carers and clinical and non-clinical personnel within the Trust and externally.To devise and deliver treatment and management plans for patients seen within the service.To liaise with and refer on to hospital and community based mental health services, both within the Trust and externally; working closely with the Older Adult directorate in SLaM. To make decisions regarding whether a person referred requires admission to mental health bed, requires intensive support from home treatment team, or can be discharged, referred to their GP or referred on to community mental health services or other agencies. This is largely anautonomous decision with referral to and discussion with team colleagues for a second opinion where appropriate.The post holder will be expected to work autonomously most of the time but must work collaboratively and in an integrated way with all other parts of the Trusts services.To monitor the teams performance and to ensure that data entry is accurate and that the team meets the required performance targets and KPIs set as a Lambeth Liaison Service. ManagerialTo be responsible for ensuring that the Liaison Team works closely with the old age in-patient wards, frailty unit and Emergency Department of GSTT.To be responsible for ensuring that services provided by the Older Adult Liaison Team are of the highest standard in terms of fair access, equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.To be responsible for ensuring that procedures are in place within the Older Adult Liaison Team to support the receipt of referrals, assessments, allocation and closing of referrals that come through the system.To be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place to respond promptly, appropriately and in an open manner to complaints and enquiries about the work of the Liaison service.To ensure that clinical governance policy and procedures are implemented. To investigate serious incidents and complaints in accordance with the Trust policies.To undertake investigations into complaints and incidents, provide reports to the Clinical Service Lead as required and implement recommendations arising from these. To be responsible for the effective staffing of the service through compilation of the e-Roster ensuring that staff with the appropriate skill and experience are on duty at all times.To ensure that arrangements are in place within the team for effective clinical assessment of all referrals, risk management and evaluation, making use of the professional skill mix within the team.To provide the Clinical Service Lead with regular feedback on the work of the Older Adult Liaison Team; represent the Older Adult Liaison Team at trust-wide operational meetings, providing feedback as required. To work collaboratively with the Clinical Service Lead, and CMHT and HTT managers to ensure that the service meets the requirements of Core 24, PLAN standards, the MHA 2007, MCA and CPA