Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Liaison Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
About the Trust
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
Job overview
Due to an expansion in the team an exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a new colleagues as Mental Health Liaison Practitioners with the service based at Fairfield General Hospital.
If you are a registered mental health professional with experience in assessing and supporting individuals of any age and you would like to be part of a growing and developing service we would like to hear from you. We are particularly interested in colleagues with an experience of working with children as well as both working age and older adults to support our urgent pathway within the team and individuals with a background in crisis and acute care to support our emergency pathway.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Mental Health Liaison service you can expect professional support and development in this exciting and challenging area of work. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team at Fairfield General Hospital and will receive regular management and clinical supervision and have opportunities to engage in CPD. As a valued member of the liaison team you will be fully involved in all service developments and given opportunities to support quality improvement. Significant developments have taken place over the past 12 months with acute trust colleagues supported by NHS England which means this is a great time to join the team.
The service runs 7 days a week to support wards and 24/7 to support the Emergency Department, so posts will be worked on a shift basis to include nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person specification
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Essential criteria
- Professional registration in health or social care with up to date accreditation / CPD – RMN, Dip SW, BSc Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
- Short course(s) and experience to post graduate diploma level.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree leve
- Accredited skills based training
- Training related to management skills, teaching, staff development and supervision
- Non-medical prescriber
- AMHP
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Essential criteria
- Proven experience across a range of acute mental health services
- Demonstrate a working experience of a range of assessment tools for a range of mental health conditions
- Previous experience of working effectively with other disciplines
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within liaison services
- Experience of working with older adults with functional illness and / organic conditions in either an inpatient or community setting
- Experience in identifying and management of delirium
- Experience of supporting individuals who misuse alcohol or drugs
- Experience of delivering training / teaching to other professionals
- Experience of service development / managing change
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Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of evidence based contemporary mental health practice.
- Sound knowledge base of holistic risk assessment and management.
- Good understanding of the impact of physical and mental health co-morbidities
- Sound working knowledge of Mental Heath Act and Mental Capacity Act Legislation and DOLS
Desirable criteria
- Have knowledge of the range of services available for individuals locally
- Awareness of a range evidence based interventions
- Awareness of the value of research / audit and quality improvement
skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in Assessment / Care Management and planning
- Ability and skills to undertake comprehensive risk assessment and formulation of risk management plans including supporting patients who self harm or are in a neglectful state
- Ability to undertake Bio / Psychosocial assessments across a range of patient groups and age profiles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a wide range of people including patients carers and other professionals
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritise and manage own workload
- Good organisational, problem solving and time management skills and an ability to work under pressure
- Ability to supervise staff, set standards, monitor performance and promote staff development
- Possess a positive attitude to change and commitment to service development
- Be able to work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team
- Be able to work a range of shifts over a 24 hour, 7 day period on a rotational basis
- Ability to formulate clear discharge plans across a range of patent groups and age profiles
Desirable criteria
- Leadership skills / abilities
- Ability to use IT systems across PCFT
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kevin Ellis
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 716 1181
- Additional information
For further details about the role or to come and meet the team and have a look at how we operate then please contact: Susan Griffiths or Miranda Marsh – Team Leaders Tel: 0161 716 1061
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