Senior Mental Health Practitioner

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Band 6 to join the Exeter Liaison Psychiatry Team. The successful applicant will help deliver high quality and comprehensive assessment and consultation to people with mental health needs in the Royal Devon and Exeter University Hospital.

Liaison Psychiatry is a service that specialises in the interface between medicine and psychiatry. We are seeking to recruit an experienced and motivated, dynamic clinician with Significant post qualifying experience to join our 24/7 service.

You will have a key role in contributing to the mental health care of people in the general hospital and we welcome applications from all mental health professionals, including Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers.

Full time and part time Band 6 positions available. There is a requirement for you to be able to work day and night shifts.

Devon Partnership Trust will support you to learn the skills you need to thrive in the role. We will offer you the training and development support you need to begin a fulfilling career. In return, you will need to be motivated, flexible and eager to learn.

We offer relocation packages to this beautiful part of Devon.

We would invite any applicants to speak directly to the manager and invite applicants to spend time with the team whilst applying for the position.

You will be working within a Senior Mental Health Practitioner role helping support referrals from colleagues within the Royal Devon and Exeter University Hospital. You will be working within a busy team who complete both assessment and consultation work with people who require support for their mental health needs.

It will be your job to make specialist mental health assessments, and devise interventions that will help people to recover. You will play a key role in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working with multiple agencies on a daily basis. You will be delivering care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills that are appropriate to the clinical situation presented.

You will be supported to work confidently within an MDT with the knowledge to devise individual safety plans for the people you see. It is important that you can communicate effectively, not only with your colleagues, but the people you care for, their families and carers. You will be at the centre of their care.

We ask that you are an experienced mental health professional with a professional mental health qualification (RMN, CQSW / ASW, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT).

We will help you grow in the role and can provide a range of training opportunities, including CPD modules that can help you develop the skills you need to thrive in the job.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

The Liaison Psychiatry Service provides a 24 hour, 7 day a week in and out of hours comprehensive service to patients, clinicians and carers at the local District General Hospital (DGH). This includes specialist mental health assessment and intervention to people of all ages from the age of 18 who present or, are admitted to the DGH.

We provide a specialist consultation-liaison service to referring clinicians and clinical teams, assisting them in decision making in difficult and complex cases, and providing both formal and informal education to qualified and unqualified staff, and offer a broad range of specialist psychosocial treatments for individual inpatients.

Staff within the service are also representing the Devon Partnership Trust in the general hospital setting and will…