Senior Mental Health Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom Livewell Southwest CIC Full time

UHP is the largest hospital in the South West peninsula, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare. The geography gives the hospital a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access the specialist services. UHP is a designated major trauma centre for the South West peninsula.

Following investment in the Derriford Liaison Psychiatry team, we are looking for suitably qualified practitioners with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure. Experience of working with adults of working age and older people is desirable but not essential. Liaison Psychiatry in Derriford provides a 24hr, 7 days a week provision and successful applicants will be expected to work various shift patterns on a rotational basis.

The specialist function of the team is to provide bio-psychosocial assessments for individuals aged 18 years and above within the Derriford Hospital footprint, either attending via the Emergency Department or being an in-patient within the hospital. Patients seen may present with mental health difficulties eg. psychiatric crisis or an organic presentation such as a dementia /delirium.



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