Older Persons Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

We are seeking an older adults and dementia nurse to join our mental health liaison team based at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, this is a 9-5 Mon-Fri full time role.

You will be working at the interface between physical and psychological health and bring your knowledge and expertise to your general hospital colleagues. You will work within our MDT in order to provide specialist assessment, treatment and discharge planning to those patients with functional and organic mental health conditions.

Main duties of the job

We support patients referred to our service with a wide range of physical and psychological co-morbidities including those people presenting to mental health services for the very first time.

You will need to be able to work autonomously and have excellent communication skills and be able to foster excellent relationships with patients, carers, general hospital colleagues and other parts of the health and social care system.

About us

We are Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, providing mental health, learning disability and neurodevelopmental services to people living in south east England. Our services are for children, young people, adults of working age and older people.

Job responsibilities

This is a challenging but rewarding role, offering an exciting opportunity. You will need the ability to work autonomously whilst still contributing to the team as a whole. If you enjoy the challenge and stimulus of working under pressure and are able to remain calm in quickly changing circumstances, you will be well suited to this role.

You will be independently undertaking comprehensive assessments for older adults and people living with dementia, working autonomously to generate risk assessments, care plans, and onward planning. This will involve working with patients, their loved ones, other areas of mental health services, our acute trust colleagues and more to ensure positive outcomes for all those referred to our service.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Mental Nurse, Social Worker or OT
• Mentorship, ENB 998 or level 3 module in teaching and assessing in clinical practice

Knowledge/Experience

• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and DOL's
• Knowledge of the MHA (1983/2007)

Analytical & Judgement skill

• Excellent clinical skills

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPro rata for part time