Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including nights, public holidays and weekends)
- Job ref
- 285-4578-MH
- Employer
- Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
- Town
- Smethwick
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Mental Health Liaison Nurse Sandwell
NHS AfC: Band 6
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
October 2024 will see the opening of the new Midland Met Hospital based in Birmingham which is part of Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospital Trust (SWMH). This is an exciting time for the population of Birmingham and the surrounding areas. Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals Trust (SWBHT) have a long-established relationship with Black Country Healthcare Foundation Trust and Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust and have provided collaboratively provided mental health services to the Birmingham and Black Country population. The new Midland Met will see a continuation of this collaboration in the provision of high quality mental health urgent care services. For the Mental Health Liaison service provided by the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust currently based at Sandwell General Hospital this will mean that on 6th October 2024 the service will be moving to the new Midland Met Hospital. This will be an exciting time to join the team!
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a direct line of contact for referrals from the Emergency Department and in patient wards for all patients over 18 attending the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. To provide care appropriate to their entry onto the relevant part of the NHS register and in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct.
The main focus of the role will be for adults, and will include older adults when required.
To work various shift patterns participating in a flexible, 7 days per week rota on a shift rotational basis. The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. .
To ensure the service operates in line with national guidance for core 24 model and follows guidance from NICE for the assessment of individuals presenting at acute hospital and the policy implementation guide for Liaison Psychiatry and psychological medicine. The guidance recommends that every patient presenting with self-harm should be offered a comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment, risk assessment and packages of care to expedite discharge from hospital and access to more appropriate services.
Working for our organisation
We are a supportive, skilled and friendly multidisciplinary team, working in a fast paced, busy environment.
Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust’s values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues’ behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To undertake comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment of patients referred into the service
- Following assessment the post holder will devise and deliver interim risk management and clinical intervention plans and for patients requiring mental health input, in collaboration with the medical teams and patient and where appropriate their carer.
- Demonstrate the ability to arrive at a formulation of risk following assessment which incorporates the principles of positive risk taking
- Formulate a comprehensive risk management plan to address areas of identified risk and oversee this until clinical responsibility is passed to another clinician or clinical team
- Demonstrate the necessary clinical skills to contain and manage patients exhibiting challenging behaviours
- Accurately and comprehensively document the assessment, formulation, risk assessment and agreed management plan based on the assessed needs of the patient. Documentation should take various forms to accommodate the communication needs of the patient, carers and the wider clinical team. This includes inputting the assessment on the Common Assessment Tool, and hand written, relevant documentation in the medical notes.
- Responsible for evaluating the outcomes of prescribed care
- Accurately record all referrals and contacts on the trusts IT system within 24 hours.
- Complete a Care Cluster Allocation tool for each patient.
- Demonstrate up to date knowledge of the legislation and guidance involved in determining a person’s capacity
- Demonstrate up to date knowledge of the psychosocial risk factors for mental health issues in older adults
- Demonstrate a knowledge of dementia, delirium and depression/anxiety in older adults.
- Demonstrate up to date knowledge of mental health issues
- Demonstrate up to date knowledge of the impact of aging on risk and its assessment &management, e.g. suicide and falls
- Communicate effectively with patients with physical psychological co
morbidities, including cognitive and sensory impairment, their carers and members of the care team.
- liaise effectively with, other services involved in the patient’s care including MHCOP, physical care team, social services and primary care services and to discuss and assist in the implementation of effective care programmes for older adults
- Act upon concerns about safeguarding issues.
- Demonstrate up to date knowledge of The Mental Health Act and The Mental Capacity Act as they apply to patient care in the acute hospital.
- Request Mental Health Acts when clinically indicted,
- Support patients in participating in all aspects of their health care.
- To be aware of the need to avoid inappropriate admission to hospital, reduce the length of stay in hospital and support appropriate, timely discharge from acute hospital wards.
- Responsible for working with SWBT and BCHFT teams, other mental health trusts, Primary care teams, social services and other agencies to identify and introduce appropriate care pathways.
- Required to work closely with the Crisis Recovery and Home treatment teams. This includes supporting referral and assessment of patients to the Adult and Older Adult home treatment teams as required.
- To effectively and efficiently provide psychological support to patients with mental health needs who are temporarily in crisis, or who have mental health needs as a result of their physical illness or as a result of being hospitalised.
- To provide time limited liaison reviews when needed for those patients with more complex and enduring mental health needs whilst inpatient in Sandwell General Hospital
- Contribute to the development and quality of clinical practice of liaison work with this client group at local and national levels.
- Undertake relevant data collection, analysis and evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the post.
- Develop knowledge and networks with local community resources and cascade this into the team.
- Promote effective communication between the Acute Trust and Mental Health Service, identifying and reporting difficulties to appropriate service managers
- To work alongside acute staff and raise awareness of the importance of good mental health and how to deal with patients who suffer with mental health illness, who also have comorbid medical conditions on order to enhance the current level of care offered.
- To reduce the number of re-attenders into Emergency Departments by signposting to more appropriate service.
- To contribute to student training programmes
Person specification
essential
Essential criteria
- qualified RMN
- • Experience of undertaking assessments and planning care for patient’s in mental health crisis
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
- Abbie Gogarty
- Job title
- Clinical Lead / Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 612 8607
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