Job summary
- Main area
- RMN
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (days, nights, weekends, bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 311-O648-25
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Oldham Hospital
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/05/2025
Employer heading

Senior Liaison Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
Are you a Qualified Mental Health Professional looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a team that will help you to develop and achieve your goals? Oldham Liaison mental health is recruiting for a senior mental health liaison practitioner
You'll join an innovating team thriving to provide a high-quality service, ensuring patients receive a comprehensive assessment, onward referral and safety netted when the attend A&E in a mental health crisis, admitted on the wards or detained on S136.
Working in the LMHT you will receive all age referrals from A&E, hospital wards or section 136 from the police. Referrals will be assessed, and care planned for admission, discharge and signpost to services that can meet the needs of the individual. For service users presenting with symptoms of a severe and enduring illness, and/or risks to self or others, you will complete a comprehensive mental health assessment and risk assessment to ensure that risks are managed and on-going supported is provided.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities. this is not exhaustive
Work as part of the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Liaison team to deliver an effective and efficient response to referrals from the acute trust, providing clinical assessments and interventions focusing on relapse prevention, early discharge and improved quality of life for patients referred.
Be expected to undertake mental health assessments for people attending the Emergency Department, offering highly developed clinical and risk assessments and managements plans
Provide a service to the wards within the general hospital, assessing individuals
with a range of complex physical and mental health needs. This would include both functional and organic illnesses of later life in addition to younger people
Provide support and training to acute hospital staff regarding recognising mental health conditions and appropriate management and onward referral pathways
Provide information and clinical support to police and ambulance staff in order to help them make appropriate pathway decisions
Provide support and care for individuals brought to an identified Place of Safety under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and co-ordinate the assessment process.
Working for our organisation
Oldham Liaison Mental Health is leading the way in delivering high quality, safe, effective and evidence based best practice assessments and support for patients in A&E and on medical wards. The team is currently working towards getting accredited by The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network.
You will be joining a team of experience practitioners willing to support your learning and development needs, offering flexibility for work life balance and with a strong desire to maintain staff wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is not exhaustive
To have the ability to recognise and work within your own limitations and raise any concerns to senior staff
To be able to prioritise workload, completing the necessary tasks within the available time
To participate in service planning, evaluation and development
To comply with Trust Uniform Policy including the principle of ‘bare below the elbows’
In the absence of the clinical lead, act as shift co-ordinator and take responsibility or referral triaging and management, planning and allocating the workload on a day to day basis.
To deal appropriately with clinical incidents, complaints etc from patients,
relatives and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Professional registration in health or social care with up to date accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Additional training relevant to the role
- Experience in risk assessment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of national legislation (including MHA and MCA), guidelines and evidence based practice relevant to role.
- Knowledge of risk assessment and holistic assessment practices
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of liaison role with A&E department and medical wards, common issues and presentations
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience using holistic assessment approaches and complex risk management
- Excellent organisational, problem solving/prioritisation skills and able to work in a time pressured manner.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership skills/Abilities
work related circumsyances
Essential criteria
- Flexible working across division if necessary
- To be able to work a range of shifts over a 24 hour, 7 day period on a rotation basis
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
- Rachael Campbell
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01617162275
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