Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust provides a comprehensive, 24 hour, 365 day Liaison Psychiatric service to patients, their families and carers and to other clinicians on the Hillingdon Hospital site.
The complexity of the casework requires you to think with clarity in situations that are stressful and at times potentially high risk. You will be working with patients who have severely challenging behaviour, mental health problems, have self harmed or are in psychiatric crisis, who present with ‘biopsychosocial’ problems. These patients may present from a variety of specialist areas within psychiatry – old age psychiatry, substance misuse, HIV services, forensic services, learning disabilities, child and adolescent services. This list is not exhaustive.
You must feel confident in assessing a wide variety of people and putting treatment and management plans into place that provide optimum safety and support. This includes decisions to admit in consultation with the Home Treatment team and the duty psychiatrist and independently discharge patients from the Department.
Provide operational and clinical leadership for the Psychiatric Liaison Service, working closely with the Team Manager to coordinate care between Hillingdon Hospital, community mental health teams, social services, and other internal and external providers. Maintain effective multidisciplinary partnerships to ensure seamless patient care across services.
Lead, supervise, and develop staff, promoting high standards of clinical practice and professional development. Support workforce planning, staff wellbeing, communication, and service effectiveness.
Undertake and oversee comprehensive mental health assessments for patients presenting with a range of clinical conditions, responding to psychiatric emergencies across the hospital and providing expert consultation and liaison support to A&E and inpatient teams. Assist clinicians in developing effective care and treatment plans.
Monitor, maintain, and improve standards of care through audit, research, data collection, service evaluation, and quality improvement initiatives. Lead and support clinical and managerial projects, facilitating multidisciplinary collaboration and ensuring successful implementation of service developments.
Work collaboratively with the Team Manager and key stakeholders to review service performance, develop operational policies and procedures, strengthen partnerships across health and social care services, and contribute to the ongoing planning and development of liaison psychiatry services
Here at The Riverside centre we can offer you:
An opportunity to work on the outskirts of London with good transport links from Uxbridge to London.
Excellent progression through various career pathway opportunities * Support and guidance with Revalidation
Flexible working
Band 6 Monthly Development Days and Leadership Programs
Ongoing supervision and appraisals with optional coaching available
Tailored education and development program from Mentorship to PhD.
Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London such as: relocation package, childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
GENERAL
To ensure that the Psychiatric Liaison Team at Hillingdon Hospital Riverside Centre delivers a consistent, responsive, high quality and user friendly service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
To provide day-to-day leadership, coordination, and clinical support to the Psychiatric Liaison Team.
To provide a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in all areas of responsibility for staff, service users and carers.
To work closely with the Team Manager, the Consultant Psychiatrists and other senior members of the Team to develop the Psychiatric Liaison Service.
To regularly undertake delegated managerial responsibilities and duties, and to deputise for the Team Manager in his/her absence or as required.
Enable the provision of evidence based assessment and treatment that incorporates cultural preferences, health beliefs, behaviours and traditional practices as well as respecting differences in relation to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and disability.
To enable joint delivery of specialist mental health education to Acute Trust staff to increase awareness, empower and enable, promote the specialist skills of mental health professionals with the ultimate aim of improving the service user experience in an Acute Trust setting.
To work jointly with the Consultant Psychiatrists and local Lead Psychologists to ensure that the links between Psychiatric Liaison and Clinical Health Psychology are maintained and developed and that the many areas of joint interest are taken forward in an effective joined-up manner
To work closely with all key stakeholders regarding the enhancement of the interfaces between the Psychological Medicine Service Line, other CNWL Service Lines and the Acute Trusts
