Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
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Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT)
About the Role
Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) currently has an exciting opportunity for a permanent Part time Mental Health Liaison post. Applications are welcome from Registered Mental health nurses/social workers or Occupational Therapists.
About the Team
Mid Sussex is a lively and friendly team where you will be offered mentorship and supervision from senior nursing colleagues, active management support and the chance to undertake training courses relevant to your professional practice. You will also have access to regular professional supervision.
Hours of work are generally between 9am and 5pm from Monday to Friday.
Benefits:
- This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
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Key Responsibilities
- To work as part of the secondary care mental health service, acting as a link clinician to primary care teams. Clinical work will be carried out within primary care settings.
- To work with GPs and primary care teams, specifically colleagues in IAPT (West Sussex Talking Therapies), providing support, advice, consultation and shared care for adults, regardless of age and diagnosis, presenting with a functional mental illness, to enable safe management of clients within primary care.
- To work in partnership with GPs and other primary care colleagues around individual patients and to work jointly with them to develop care plans for the client.
- To assess individuals with complex presentations, prior to referral to secondary care and if required, directing them into the appropriate specialist service within secondary care ensuring they are not passed between services.
- To maintain a close working relationship with local secondary care teams, keeping them informed of developments within primary care.
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About Us
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: John Garland
- Job title: MHLP Team Leader
- Email address: j.garland@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0300 304 0052
To arrange an informal discussion about the post please contact John Garland at j.garland@nhs.net
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