Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Whiston Core 24 is a specialist liaison service that supports the rapid assessment of service user's mental health for those who present to the Emergency Department in times of crisis or, those who are referred from the acute general hospital wards and the formulation of treatment and risk management plans based on assessment of needs with the appropriate triage and diversion form the service.

The service operates on a shift system of long days (currently under review), inclusive of nights to provide 24/7 365 days a year service. The service has recently undergone Organisational Change to make the service more flexible across the Urgent Care footprint, providing support to Mersey Cares additional Core 24 services including Royal Liverpool, Warrington, Aintree and Southport Core 24 services where required., A unique opportunity has arisen within the Whiston Core 24 team based at Whiston Hospital for a band 6 Mental Health Practitioner. This role will involve working across the Emergency Department and the medical inpatient wards, providing assessment, care and treatment of service users with mental health issues secondary to physical health.

This role requires some knowledge of physical health comorbidities an how this impacts upon an individuals mental health in an acute hospital setting. The role involves working closely with colleagues in the acute trust, contributing within the MDTs and over seeing mental health care and treatment from admission to discharge.

We are looking for an experienced practitioner with a wealth of experience working in mental health services, inclusive of organic services.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.