Band 6 Care Home Liaison Nurse - Devizes

CHLS is a well-established team, we specialize in delivering high quality interventions to people residing in care homes in the Wiltshire area. We are a small team of Nurses who work with service users and carers in care homes with people with a diagnosis of dementia and/or functional mental health.

To work as an independent practitioner delivering the following core liaison service domains for Older Adults within Care Home establishments in Wiltshire:

Rapid & Prioritized Specialist Mental Health Assessment with Recommendation/s for care & treatment within multiple care pathways.

Determination of the nature & severity of mental health needs with consequent sign posting and pathway facilitation.

Rapid and Accessible ongoing Support, & Advice to the non-specialist workforce.

Ongoing Education & Training for the non-specialist workforce.

This post predominately covers the West Wiltshire area, but there may be on occasion the need to support other parts of the team in Wiltshire to ensure service delivery., To provide specialist assessment for referred service users using specified assessment tools to an agreed standard.

To make effective use of the standard liaison approach and structure for assessments according to the SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) format.

Following assessment, to provide short- term follow up of patients where appropriate.

To contribute evidence based expertise to multi-disciplinary team care planning processes.

Develop and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with service users and significant others.

Hold a caseload of service users requiring monitoring and review of medication regimes., To work in partnership with service users and carers providing them with relevant information, signposting them to relevant agencies and assisting service users to make choices and plans for their future care.

To assist and participate in appropriate service development forums.

Provide a specialist service in a variety of settings having responsibility for managing your own caseload, providing interventions as appropriate and based on best available practice.

Maintain accurate and up to date records of casework with individual clients, ensuring that your practice & record keeping complies with all relevant standards and Good Practice Guidelines.

Ensure the monitoring and evaluation of the service by collecting and recording high quality and timely data using electronic and paper systems as required.

To attend clinical and team business meetings as necessary.

Participate in your own supervision and appraisal working with your line manager to set and review your objectives, and to identify and meet your training and professional development needs as outlined in the KSF profile for your post.

Maintain professional registration and abide by the NMC code of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

Ensure that you keep up to date with developments in both functional and organic care, ensuring that our practice is based on best available evidence and meets all relevant standards and requirements.

Have responsibility for the supervision of other staff as required.

Contribute to the provision of training for students, working with colleagues to ensure that the service meets relevant standards in this respect.

Participate in providing support, advice and training to staff of other services as appropriate.

Have responsibility for other duties as agreed with line manager.

Reduce the likelihood of hospitalization on grounds of lack of expertise to manage low to moderate mental health needs in context.

Keep abreast of current research, literature and other developments relevant to your professional sphere and area of practice.

To participate in clinical audit and service evaluation programmes as required.

To provide concise and effective liaison and feedback to clinical staff within secondary mental health services and Primary Care teams including advice on effective and appropriate management strategies for those patients referred to the service.

To promote positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between non mental health staff and mental health services, users, carers, voluntary agencies, primary care and social services.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.