Psychiatric Liaison Practitioner Job Luton area,England UK,Healthcare

A Senior clinician in the psychiatric liaison service will be a combined leadership and clinical role.

Expectations of high level evidenced based clinical contact with complex and challenging cases and role modelling to the wider service.

Assessments, documentation and communication written and verbal will be of a high standard and in line with service and trust aims and goals.

A part of a team the post holder will supervise other members of the team and support improvement in all areas that the service provides.

Working combined shifts over a 24hr 7 day service it is important to communicate your own well being and recognise the needs and support where possible the wellbeing of your colleagues.

Assessment and signposting.

Supporting the acute trust to aid smooth and timely discharges from hospital.

Documenting and communicating interactions on systems both from the ELFT and Acute trust to maintain clarity in care planning.

Supervisory responsibility

Deputising for clinical lead and operational led as required.

Improvement projects

Teaching to acute colleagues informally and formally depending on setting.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Luton Psychiatric Liaison Service (PLS)

The post holder will be part of the Psychiatric Liaison Service(PLS)
Service which is a model of psychiatric liaison serving the Luton & Dunstable Hospital including the Emergency Department and inpatient wards at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital. The service is commissioned to carry out the following:

Provide a single multidisciplinary mental health and drug assessment service
Provide expert advice on the management, treatment and diagnosis of patients to acute hospital clinicians
Provide support to acute hospital clinicians
Provide training to acute hospital clinicians
To improve health outcomes for patients
To reduce length of stay for patients
To reduce readmissions to the Emergency Department
To reduce re-attendances to the Emergency Department
To improve the experience of patients who receive care in the acute hospital
To reduce direct admissions to care homes
To improve Luton & Dunstable Hospital staff awareness, skills and knowledge in mental health and drugs and alcohol

The Service will operate a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week service for people aged 16 years and above who present with a suspected mental health, self-harm or drug and alcohol problem. The service will maintain focus on identifying, assessing and care planning for older people.

The post holder will be expected to be self-motivating and autonomous with the ability to demonstrate accurate formulations of mental state, risk and need for people over the age of 16 years taking into account medical and social factors and referring on to other disciplines in the team or other agencies as appropriate within the given time frames for the service.

The post holder will provide advice on mental health issues and participate in carrying out training programs for clinical teams on the management of a wide variety of mental health problems.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:
The post-holder will:

Be responsible for the full mental health assessment of care needs of patients presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions within the Emergency Department and the acute hospital. Following this, the post-holder will be responsible for development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision, unless otherwise indicated.
Have freedom to act, particularly, but not exclusively, around discharge and follow-up in line with the PLS key performance indicators on discharge. In doing so, they will at all times, work closely with members of the PLS team and organisations and teams as appropriate to the needs of the patient and within the set time frames.
On a secondary basis, provide a comprehensive consultation‑liaison service to the other medical teams and…