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An Exciting New Opportunity in Older Adult Mental Health Services in Fife
The service is seeking a highly specialist mental health nurse with significant experience in older adult mental health and/or mental health liaison services.
The successful candidate will provide expert clinical leadership within the older adult mental health hospital liaison service, delivering specialist assessment, consultation, and intervention for older adults with dementia, delirium, depression, anxiety, and other complex mental health needs within the acute and community hospital settings. The successful candidate will work autonomously while supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team and promoting person-centred care which is evidence-based.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and manage clinical risk
- Undertake comprehensive bio psychosocial and cognitive assessments
- Provide clinical supervision, mentorship, and education to nursing staff and students
- Lead quality improvement initiatives, clinical audit, and service development
- Work collaboratively with Consultants, GP’s community mental health teams, social work, care homes, and third sector organisations
- Contribute to governance, incident review, and continuous improvement
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For informal enquiries, please contact:
- Jacqueline McInnes, Clinical Service Manager at Jacqueline.mcinnes@nhs.scot
- Stuart Rae, Interim Lead Nurse Older Adult Mental Health at stuart.rae2@nhs.scot
Important Information
- A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme prior to appointment.
- To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
- As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
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Additional Information
- We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
- NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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