Liaison Mental Health Practitioner

3 days ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for a permanent post, working within the expanding and dynamic Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service (ALPS) based at the heart of St James University Hospital A&E department.

The ALPS team serves two hospital sites under Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT); St James University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. The service receives all mental health referrals and delivers assessments to both acute hospitals Accident and Emergency Departments. In addition, the service model provides self-harm assessments to all the medical and surgical wards within the acute trust.

The driver to provide the ALPS service model is to reduce admissions to the Clinical Decisions Units within Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust and to conduct more timely assessments to those admitted to medical inpatient areas of LTHT following an act of self-harm.

ALPS provide comprehensive mental health and risk assessments to those referred, following which plans are formulated. As a service we work closely with medical colleagues from LTHT to ensure continuity of care, effective communication and support and advice is provided across both trusts.

We receive support from a part time consultant liaison psychiatrist who provides 2 weekly supervision to the team. There is also an on-call rota of senior liaison psychiatrists and conduct both lone and joint assessments.

As a service we also provide teaching sessions to non-mental health staff in order to provide a broader understanding and awareness regarding mental health presentations, in turn enabling them to respond to mental health needs more effectively.

For this role you will be a compassionate and person-centred clinician who can carry out comprehensive mental health and risk assessments to a high standard through excellent communication and risk management skills and have the confidence to assess complex clinical issues in a busy, demanding yet rewarding environment.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner as a member of a specialist team providing a rapid mental health and self-harm assessment service to individuals presenting to the emergency departments of the Leeds teaching hospitals NHS trust (acute trust) with a mental health difficulty or following an episode of self-harm. The post holder will be based within the emergency department; with most assessments being carried out in the department, in collaboration with Emergency department colleagues. The post holder will have day to day responsibility for screening referrals and prioritising them according to urgency. They will also balance the demands of assessment with the follow up needs of those admitted to an acute medical bed following an episode of self-harm. Consequently, they will have highly developed decision-making skills and be confident in working across and communicating within acute and mental health services.

The clinician’s biopsychosocial and risk assessment will subsequently influence the course of the care pathway.

The role requires excellent assessment skills and an ability to formulate sometimes complex presentations. The post holder will be clinical decisions, acting on them quickly in a challenging and demanding environment.

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