Band 6 Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - Long Fox Unit

The Mental Health Liaison Team provides a comprehensive service to patients/service users, carers and clinical colleagues based within the Weston General Hospital.

Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illness

Providing a mental health consultation liaison and advice service

Delivering a range of nursing and psychosocial interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate

Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations

Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff

Representing mental health services within the general hospital

Providing a communication structure between the general hospital, secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care

We are looking to appoint a motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our established Mental Health Liaison Team at Weston General Hospital.

You will have excellent communication skills, be able to work autonomously, and have an interest in supporting those experiencing both physical and mental health needs.

In order to promote the early detection and identification of mental health symptoms you will be required to provide training and education to healthcare staff within the acute hospital and offer information and management advice on mental health presentations, define pathways and offer signposting .

We recognise the value of having good working relationships and open lines of communication with our partners in the general hospital and the role incorporates building on these working relationships.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.