Psychiatric Liaison Practitioner

1 month ago


Bedford, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Psychiatric liaison service Bedford is seeking a new member to join our team.

The main role of the Psychiatric Liaison Service, is to assess patients that present with an acute psychiatric concern to the general hospital and to liaise with other services to provide the best support for the people we see. Each day is different and can bring new and challenging situations.

The post holder will be part of the psychiatric liaison team serving Bedford Hospital including the Emergency Department and inpatient wards at Bedford General Hospital. The service is commissioned to carry out the following:

- Provide a single multidisciplinary mental health assessment service
- Provide expert advice on the management, treatment and diagnosis of patients to acute hospital clinicians
- Provide support to acute hospital clinicians
- Provide training to acute hospital clinicians
- To improve health outcomes for patients
- To reduce length of stay for patients
- To reduce readmissions to the Emergency Department
- To reduce re-attendances to the Emergency Department
- To improve the experience of patients who receive care in the acute hospital
- To reduce direct admissions to care homes
- To improve Bedford Hospital staff awareness, skills and knowledge in mental health and drugs and alcohol

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

The Service will operates 24hrs a day, 7 day a week service for people aged 18 years and above who present with a suspected mental health, self-harm or drug and alcohol problem. The service will maintain focus on identifying, assessing and care planning. Outside the CAMHS crisis working hours, the post holder will be expected to assess patients 16 years and above who present to the Bedford Hospital.

The post holder will be expected to be self-motivating and autonomous with the ability to demonstrate accurate formulations of mental state, risk and need for people over the age of 18 years taking into account medical and social factors and referring on to other disciplines in the team or other agencies as appropriate within the given time-frames for the service.



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