Clinical Practitioner - Psych Liaison and Crisis Assessment Team | East London NHS Foundation Trust

New opportunity for a highly skilled, resilient and resourceful individual contribute to the transition and development of the reformed Mental Health Crisis pathways.

You will gain substantial experience in the variety of crisis response services working together to provide quick and highly skilled interventions to individuals presenting with a variety of crises.

You will gain the experience of working with individuals presenting through different stages of crisis presentations; in the emergency department as part of the Psychiatry liaison service and as part of our Crisis Assessment Team and in our crisis assessment hub. You will have the ability to identify those who need an urgent assessment and have the opportunity, to offer these individuals an assessment promptly.

Whilst the majority of working time will be within the psych liaison team, you will occasionally be doing 6 week rotations to work with the Crisis Assessment Team, who assess mental health crises that do not require the A&E environment.

You will have the opportunity to work as part of the rotation between Homerton Psychiatic Liaison and our Urgent assessment team, and work towards developing a cohesive crisis service pathway and supporting staffs professional development, experience, skills and knowledge. You will also be supported to develop skills through training provided by the trust to build assessment and formulation skills, risk management of psychotic, depressive, self-harm and suicidal presentation, and various other areas via our in-house training programme.

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.