As a member of the Liaison Psychiatry Team you will:
1. Provide a specialist consultation-liaison service to referring clinicians and clinical teams, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex cases.
2. Promote choice and hopefulness and ensure a recovery orientated approach.
3. Promote and initiate any actions to safeguard vulnerable children and adults.
4. Be responsible for the full assessment of care needs of patients presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions. Following this, the post-holder will be responsible for planning and referring on for appropriate follow up where necessary.
5. Provide a comprehensive consultation-liaison service to individual clinicians, particularly in assisting them develop emergency plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where patients are exhibiting complex psycho-social needs and/or challenging behaviours.
6. Be required to teach other nursing and non-nursing staff, both in formal and informal settings. Teaching will also be provided to pre-registration students.
7. Be responsible for specific clinical projects and undertake all necessary work to complete these, including facilitating meetings, liaising and/or negotiating with other staff.
8. Be expected to participate fully in quality assurance initiatives, with particular emphasis on a patient first approach when required.
9. The post-holder will act as a role model in providing a service for people with mental health problems for all staff within general hospital setting.
10. The post-holder will initiate and participate in audit/research projects associated with the work of the service when required.
11. The post holder represents the Trust in the general hospital setting and will play a vital role in communicating and maintaining a good working relationship between the both Trusts.