East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
The post holder will be part of the Mental Health Psychiatric Liaison Team which is a model of psychiatric liaison serving the Newham University Hospital including the Emergency Department and the Inpatient Wards. The service is commissioned to carry out the following:
Provide a single multidisciplinary mental health and drug assessment service
Provide expert advice on the management, treatment and diagnosis of patients to acute hospital clinicians
Provide support to acute hospital clinicians
Provide training to acute hospital clinicians
To improve health outcomes for patients
To reduce length of stay for patients
To reduce readmissions to the Emergency Department,
To reduce re-attendances to the Emergency Department
To improve the experience of patients who receive care in the acute hospital
To reduce direct admissions to care homes
To improve the Royal London Hospital staff awareness, skills and knowledge in mental health and drugs and alcohol.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work across Newham’s Crisis pathway services where needed. The Service forms part of Newham’s crisis pathway and operates a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week service for people aged 16 years and above who present with a suspected mental health, self-harm or drug and alcohol problem. The service will maintain focus on identifying, assessing and care planning for older people.
The post holder will be expected to be self-motivating and autonomous with the ability to demonstrate accurate formulations of mental state, risk and need for people over the age of 16 years taking into account medical and social factors and referring on to other disciplines in the team or other agencies as appropriate within the given timeframes for the service.
The post holder will provide advice on mental health issues and participate in carrying out training programmes for clinical teams on the management of a wide variety of mental health problems.
The post holder will be expected to maintain the highest degree of customer service at all times and will work in collaboration with the teams and organisations who come into contact with the service.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapsit/Social Worker
- Current Professional Registration
- ENB 998 or equivalent
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Recognised post graduate qualifications in a specialist area of adult or older adult mental health
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience in the field of adult and/or older adult
- Previous experience at working at senior level
- Previous experience at working autonomously
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary mental health team
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and of ensuring that nursing practice is culturally sensitive oExperience of supervising staff oExtensive and demonstrable experience of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care, particularly in an acute care or older adult community setting oEssential and demonstrable experience of writing concise and clear clinical reports oExperience of teaching and assessing in specialist mental health adult and/or older adult settings oExperience of developing or contributing to the development of new services preferably in mental health
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to promote the rights, responsibilities and recovery of adults and/or older adults with mental health problems
- Demonstrate a full understanding of the key issues and priorities relating to the provision of liaison mental health services in an acute hospital for aged 16 years and over
- Demonstrate an understanding of the expectations, pressures and demands of an acute inner city hospital, wards and registered care homes
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of current legislation and policy pertaining to the provision of mental health services in all settings including the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, NHS andCare Act, 2014 , Human Rights Act 1998
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge, expertise and practical experience of a full range of therapeutic nursing skills and approaches to people with mental health problems aged 16 years and above
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge, understanding and practical experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of child and adult protection issues
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of clinical governance and the provision of evidenced based care
- Demonstrate a clear understanding and commitment to implementing the Equal Opportunities policy
- Demonstrate an understanding of research and audit
- Demonstrate well developed and confident professional nursing skills
- Demonstrate skills in providing effective nursing leadership
Closing Date: 22 September 2026
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