Psychiatric Liaison nurse – Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health Liaison Service Job Vacancy in Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Truro – Updated today

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Company Name : Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location : Truro
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Job Description : Psychiatric Liaison nurse – Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health Liaison Service
Band 6
Main area
Dementia and Older people’s Mental Health Liaison Service
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Part time
37.5 hours per week (Up to Full Time hours)
Job ref
201-22-136-A
Site
RCHT
Town
Truro
Salary
£32,306 – £39,027 Pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/03/2022 23:59
Thank you for your interest in working for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.

Our Trust objectives are:

Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen following the development of the Dementia and Older people’s Mental Health Liaison Service throughout our hospitals in Cornwall. The team pride ourselves on being a values based team, striving to provide a quality service at all times. We have an ongoing Quality improvement program, where we are always looking at new small tests of change. Our most recent is providing 7 day follow up out into the community of most of our patients. This provides variety to the role as a liaison nurse.

Within this role you will work as part of our Discharge to assess pathway. This is a multi agency pathway, one of only in the country of its type which we are very proud of.

General Hospital services exist to meet the physical health needs of the population. However, significant numbers of older people admitted or referred to the general hospital will also have cognitive impairment and/or mental health problems in addition to their physical conditions. Such cognitive impairment and mental health problems in older people can influence care in a number of ways, including:

Increased length of stay

Increased risk of accidents, infection and confusion
Repeated admissions

In addition, under recognition of the causes of common mental health and cognitive problems in older people and the failure to adequately treat and care for problems such as confusion in older patients can contribute to:
Dissatisfaction with care
Patient and Carer complaints
The purpose of the Older Persons Psychiatric Liaison service based within the general hospital, integrated with physical health care is to:
Improve patient safety
Increase the quality of care
Improve patient flow and the appropriate utilisation of resources
Improve staff safety

The Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health Liaison provide mental health assessments and care planning services to patients over the age of 65, and for all patients who present with significant cognitive impairment problems. This involves providing a broad range of specialist psychosocial assessments and treatments for individual patients, a specialist consultation liaison service to referring clinicians and clinical teams, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex cases. The psychiatric liaison team provide informal education to qualified, unqualified and student / training healthcare staff. Staff within the service is also representing Cornwall Partnership Foundation NHS Trust in the general hospital setting and will play a vital role in communicating and maintaining a good working relationship between the two organisations.

The post of Psychiatric Liaison Nurse is a specialised mental health nurse role specialising in older adult psychiatry liaison. You will be required to have extensive knowledge and skills in caring for older people with mental health problems, risk assessment and think outside of the box to ensure safe discharge out of the acute setting You will have a knowledge of the Discharge to Assess pathway and other funding routes. . The post holder will utilise these clinical skills in ensuring the psychiatric liaison team provide high quality psychosocial care and treatment, facilitating a holistic approach to service delivery and discharge planning. The term holistic in this context is of particular importance, as patient’s physical care needs in addition to psychological and social care needs must all be carefully considered in the acute general hospital setting.

Up to full time hours are available.

If you would like to talk to us more about this exciting opportunity, please feel free to contact us.
To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

Protected CPD time for registered staff
Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
Leadership and Management development programmes
Coaching and mentoring opportunities
A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
Individual professional development programmes

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
Free DBS checks where required
Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
NHS Pension Scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Cycle to work scheme

The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.
We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

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.

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