Mental Health Liaison Practitioner Children and Young People

Job summary
Join our passionate and dedicated psychiatric liaison team, where you can make a real difference in the lives of young people. As part of our dynamic team, you'll be part of a vital mental health liaison and assessment service to the Paediatric and Accident and Emergency Departments at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, delivering comprehensive care on a 7-day-a-week basis. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to improving mental health services for children aged 11-17. If you're looking for a role where your expertise can shine, and your voice can help shape the future of mental health care for children, we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• Offer an assessment service to individual patients aged 11-17 presenting at hospital departments with a broad range of mental health and psychological needs
• Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the hospital departments
• Delivering a range of evidence based psychological interventions to individual patients aged 11-17 who have predominantly self-harmed
• Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about care and treatment in complex situations
• Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
• Representing mental health services within Hospitals Trust
• Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards patients care

About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Job responsibilities
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW
• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC
• Evidence of formal post registration learning

Desirable

• Post graduate training within a relevant CYPS/CAMHS field or skill
• Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e. LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)
• Clinical supervisor qualification/training/ accreditation

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential

• Significant proven post qualifying experience of working with children and young people with severe and enduring mental illness
• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills relevant to Children and Young people
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS/Children & Young People
• Proven knowledge and experience of providing effective therapeutic evidence based interventions
• A knowledge of CAMHS/Children & Young People's issues including assessment and interventions
• Proven experience in support and supervision of clinicians utilising formal and informal processes

Desirable

• Experience in service development/project planning and development
• Experience of working in a general hospital setting
• Experience of teaching, assessing and development of informal and formal training programmes
• Experience of providing CAMHS related training to other practitioners and/or specialist consultation/ support to partner agencies.
• Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
• Knowledge of the Children's Act and other appropriate legislation

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.