Band 6 Primary Care Liaison Practitioner - Kingswood

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Practice

1. Undertake quality comprehensive mental health assessment, including comprehensive risk assessment and safety planning for service users.

2. To provide primary care services with rapid access to specialist mental health advice and Support and to enable them to deal more effectively with a range of mental health problems.

3. To provide information and sign posting support for service users and their relatives/carers about functional and organic mental health disorders.

4. To ensure when needed that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services.

5. Following assessment, to provide short-term follow up of patients where appropriate.

6. To support the advice of medication management in collaboration with the team Consultant Psychiatrist and GP trainees.

7. To ensure the active involvement of carers and family members during all stages of assessment processes.

8. To raise awareness of the effects of physical conditions on the mental health of service users.

9. Lead, maintain and participate in practices that enable collaborative working with the team and a multidisciplinary approach to holistic care needs.

Record Keeping & Administration

1. Keep contemporaneous, chronological and accurate mental health records in accordance with Trust policy, professional guidelines and local team standard operating procedures.

2. Collect and input information and appropriate statistics for providing overall information about clinical activity.

3. Use time effectively and make appropriate use of resources.

4. Attend business meetings and participate in clinical discussion, presenting complex cases when appropriate.

Clinical Liaison

1. Provide effective communication both within AWP and with Primary Care, Social Services and a range of other voluntary and statutory organisations.

2. Sensitively and appropriately, communicate with colleagues, service users, carers and relatives.

3. Operate within the Multi Agency Policy on Safeguarding and act in accordance with AWP safeguarding polices and procedures.

Continuing Professional Development and Practice

1. Maintain and develop professional knowledge skills and expertise, to ensure that practice reflects best practice and remain current and evidence based.

2. Act in accordance within the guidelines from your professional body.

3. To assist and participate in appropriate service development reforms.

4. Work to the policies and procedures of the Trust.

5. Ensure knowledge of and work to any local team policies and procedures.

6. Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant medicines, related medication management issues and act in accordance with NMC guidelines.

7. Take responsibility for post-registration education and practice requirements for continued professional development needs.

8. Ensure the provision and fully participate in the clinical and management supervision and appraisal process.

9. Actively participate in the Trust's policy of appraisal and staff development.

10. Maintain up to date knowledge and skills of appropriate IT systems.

Teaching, Education and Audit

1. Contribute to the provision of an appropriate learning environment for pre and post registered students and new team members and act as a mentor for nursing students.

2. Provide formal feedback from training sessions attended.

3. Identify, initiate and support the development of improvements in the service, including clinical audit.

Management

1. Provide supervision for other staff members both qualified and unqualified as required by the Team Manager/Senior Practitioner.

2. Lead on agreed service development initiatives or represent the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current Professional Qualification - Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker
• Registration must be live with relevant professional body
• Evidence of post registration training and CPD.
• Valid driving license

Desirable

• Training in Psychosocial/brief Interventions

Experience

Essential

• You must have completed your preceptorship
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems
• Demonstrates experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies

Desirable

• Experience working with clients with dual diagnosis (acute/severe and enduring mental health and substance misuse problems)
• Experience working with older adults with knowledge of Cognitive Disorders
• Experience working with people experiencing mental health crisis
• Experience working within a community mental health setting or wide variety of settings
• Working knowledge of the make up of the wider health and social care community including statutory and non-statutory services and direct experience of multi inter-agency working and collaboration.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to engage effectively with people at all levels even when a more assertive approach is needed.
• Front line experience of using assessment skills especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health (functional and organic) and differentiation between physical and mental health symptoms and conditions. Comprehensive assessment skills, including writing reports and IT skills
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of Recovery principles and the role primary and secondary care mental health services
• Demonstrable levels of initiative utilised within practice and work delivery.
• Knowledge of the needs, treatment approaches and rights of people with mental health problems and the needs of their carers and family.
• Able to articulate a detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding.

Desirable

• Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative, work flexibly and manage change.
• Psychosocial and brief intervention skills
• Demonstrates substantial experience of, and relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring/assessing students and learners

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Street

Kingswood

BS15 9TR

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)