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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 to band 6 developmental post a substantive position within the Mental Health Liaison Team in BANES. We are looking to recruit registered practitioners (RMN, OT or Social Worker) who has an interest in working with individuals who have presented to the Royal United Hospital (RUH). 

We are looking for individuals, who are interested in working with adults (18+) who may present following an episode of self-injury to the
Emergency Department or on a general medical ward and for Older Adults who may have a cognitive impairment, delirium who may have
complex physical health needs.

The team offer learning opportunities to work alongside service users experiencing medically unexplained symptoms, functional disorders and severe and enduring mental illnesses while admitted for physical health treatment at the Royal United Hospital.

The team covers a 7 day working week, 365 days a year – with a pattern of shifts 8am to 4pm, 9-5pm, 10am to 6pm, 12 to 8pm and 4pm to midnight. However flexible would be considered to ensure promotion of your own work/life balance/health and wellbeing.

You will be joining an established and experienced band 6 nurse/practitioner team, who we invite and encourage you to spend time with to see how exciting this job can be as no two days are ever the same!

Main duties of the job

This involves:

·         Offering a comprehensive psychosocial and safety assessment, service to patients presenting with a range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses.

·         Providing a mental health consultation-liaison and advice service.

·         Delivering a range of nursing and psychosocial 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.

·         Providing a communication structure between the general hospital, secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.

 As a member of the mental health liaison band 6 team, the post holder will be expected to assess and treat patients who are referred from a variety of sources, which will include:

·         Emergency Department.

·         Medical assessment areas.

·         All wards and clinical teams across the hospital including ITU and Maternity.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care. 

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.