Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

This role is for a dedicated member of staff that will work exclusively on Night shifts.

BDCFT is looking for enthusiastic and innovative Band 6 Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service (ALPS) Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to be an active part of a team of trained and competent professionals in liaison Mental Health, who deliver a timely and compassionate assessment which effectively sign postsservice users with mental health issues, presenting in our General Hospitals.

The successful applicants will need to be an excellent motivated practitioner, able to work within a General Hospital environment, respecting their views and methods, while simultaneously promoting Mental Health and collaborative working. In addition, close relationships and partnership working will be essential with other key stake holders such as the Voluntary Care Sector, Local Authority, Blue light services.

Other key areas of work that the applicant will need to focus on are, trauma informed care, ensuring older adults and young adults receive an equitable service, creating safe and inclusive pathways for the intoxicated service user, a focus on the increased risks for Perinatal service users and linking in to key services to counter the impact of social deprivation.

The role will be toeffectively implement all the above, maintaining Trust values and a high enthusiasm for quality service delivery., To provide a high standard of nursing care for service users within the Acute Community Services in Bradford and Airedale

Mental Health Professionals working within the Acute Community Service provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning to service users presenting in the Accident and Emergency Departments who are in mental health crisis.

While this role is permanent, the element of exclusive night work is on trial and the following conditions will apply:

1.Exclusive night work will be reviewed against the impact on individual and the service, with the trust reserving the right to revert to a mixed shift pattern if they are reviewed to be unsafe or ineffective.

2.The successful applicant will be rostered on to complete one 6 hour shift on day per 8 week period, this will be for the purpose of Mandatory training, Appraisal, Clinical and management supervision.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.