Mental Health Nurse Urgent Care and Access Rotation Post

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Urgent Care and access service. This role will give the practitioner a unique opportunity to develop knowledge and skills and gain experience working in Mental Health Liaison (MHLT), Home Based treatment team (HBTT) and Initial Response Service (IRS).

You will rota between the three teams every 6 months with a mix of days and night shifts.

You will also be supported by the community matron who will provide supervision alongside the supervision you will receive from your clinical supervisor in each of the teams.

The urgent care and access service offer 24-hour support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns.

Home Based Treatment Team support people living in the community, aged 16 years old or above who have moderate to complex or serious mental health problems across Lancashire.

The teams have various functions including assessment, gate keeping and a home based treatment function as an alternative to admission. This also includes facilitating early discharge from hospital.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Liaison team provides a comprehensive service to patients/service users, carers and clinical colleagues based within our acute trusts.

This involves:

o Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of mental health and psychological problems, over the age of 16 yrs. of age.

o Providing a mental health consultation-liaison and advice service

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

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

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

o Representing mental health services within the general hospital

o 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

Following assessment, discuss and agree with the band 7 practitioner, the most appropriate pathway, signposting and were an inpatient stay is potentially required refer to the Enhanced Gatekeeping MDT.Co-ordinate 136 MHA presentations in the A&E Department and support Section 136 Suites co-located with MHDUs.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.