Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust (LSCFT) is an exciting place to work and it committed to be a leading provider of excellent services. We believe that the key to providing high quality services that meet service user and carer's needs is by supporting and developing our staff. We are committed to providing opportunities for training and personal development so that you can fulfil your potential.

The Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) is based at the Avondale Unit, Royal Preston Hospital (RPH) and provides support to Lancashire Teaching Hospital (LTH) for service users referred via A&E (RPH) and/or The Urgent Care Centre (Chorley General District Hospital) and also from acute wards at both RPH and CDGH.

As a Band 6 you will be part of a Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) that provides support, assessments and guidance to the LTH, we offer training and supervision that ensures you have the knowledge and skills to ensure that you are able to assess and support service users presenting with Mental Health needs. We offer a number of training opportunities that allow you to develop your skills and support in your career development and pathway.

Main duties of the job

The mental health liaison team provides a comprehensive service to patients/service users over 16yrs, carers and clinical colleagues based within the Acute Hospital Trust. This involves:

• Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of mental health and psychological problems.
• Providing a mental health consultation-liaison and advice service
• Delivering a range of interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate
• Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
• Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
• Representing mental health services within the general hospital

Patients may present with a wide range of mental health and psychological problems. You will be required to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems, while utilising effective clinical judgments about the most appropriate treatment, discharge and follow-up options. You will use higher-level communication skills, both written and oral and have an ability to engage with challenging and/or acutely distressed individuals, sometimes in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avondale Unit RPH

Sharoe Green Lane North

Preston

PR2 9HT

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avondale Unit RPH

Sharoe Green Lane North

Preston

PR2 9HT

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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