Band 6 - Care Home Liaison Nurse - Salisbury

CHLS is a well-established team, we specialize in delivering high quality interventions to people residing in care homes in the Wiltshire area. We are a small team of Nurses who work with service users and carers in care homes with people with a diagnosis of dementia and/or functional mental health.

To work as an independent practitioner delivering the following core liaison service domains for Older Adults within Care Home establishments in Wiltshire

Rapid & Prioritized Specialist Mental Health Assessment with Recommendation/s for care & treatment within multiple care pathways

Determination of the nature & severity of mental health needs with consequent sign posting and pathway facilitation

Rapid and Accessible ongoing Support, & Advice to the non-specialist workforce

Ongoing Education & Training for the non-specialist workforce

This post predominately covers the South Wiltshire area, but there may be on occasion the need to support other parts of the team in Wiltshire to ensure service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist assessment for referred service users using specified assessment tools to an agreed standard.

To make effective use of the standard liaison approach and structure for assessments according to the SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) format.

Following assessment, to provide short- term follow up of patients where appropriate.

To contribute evidence based expertise to multi-disciplinary team care planning processes

Develop and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with service users and significant others.

Hold a caseload of service users requiring monitoring and review of medication regimes.

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.