Senior Psych Liaison Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for a Clinical band 7 who'll join our team is based in Epsom General Hospital and is core 24/7 days a week. We are an assessment and signposting service for patients in the general hospital, we also liaise with internal and external partners for signposting. We deliver teaching to the acute hospital staff and work collaboratively to deliver an excellent service. Our team consists of band 6, 7s nurses and a consultant and service manager. Staff works shifts (long days 11.5 hrs) on a rotation basis.

We are kind, compassionate and caring and support our patients with mental health needs who attends the General hospital.

Our service have PLAN (Psychiatric Liaison Accredited Network) accreditation with the Royal college of Psych . We also have a good rating for our peer standard review. Our trust is supportive to staff with flexible working need.

If you are ambitious with a positive and ready to do attitude and would like to be part of our team, we would like to hear from you. You will also have excellent communication skills with good assessment skills and experience working with patients in mental health crisis. You will be a great team player and supportive to the team. In return we will offer supervision and learning and development.

Main duties of the job

My job makes better lives by

By providing expert interventions and oversight to the care of people within the Acute General hospital pathway. I will ensure that the care delivered is excellent and in keeping with the most up to date guidelines.

I will support the growth and development of other members of the Liaison psychiatry team whilst supporting the service manager and wider Trust to achieve an exemplary CORE24 service underpinning our visions and values. My role will include providing education, challenging stigma and actively supporting service improvement and development.

I will put the experience of the person using the service at the centre of my decision making whilst building a supportive and responsive relationship with colleagues in the Acute Trust.

I will build outstanding relationships with all relevant services and will lead on clinically challenging and complex cases across the lifespan

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Psychiatric Liaison Service

Dorking Road

Epsom

KT18 8EG

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Psychiatric Liaison Service

Dorking Road

Epsom

KT18 8EG

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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