Band 6 Primary Care Liaison Worker (Older Adults) - Bath

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Are you a RMN, OT or Social Worker? Are you looking for dynamic and rewarding role in Mental Health? Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) is looking for a Band 6 professional to join their team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the BANES PCLS team to recruit a suitably qualified professional to work specifically with older adults .
There is flexibility to work between Hillview Lodge, Bath and The Hollies in Midsomer Norton.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with excellent frontline assessment skills, who holds a registered Mental Health Nursing qualification. You will possess both experience and enthusiasm for working with Older Adults.
You will be joining an experienced and dedicated team of professionals who provide telephone triage, video and face to face assessments to service users and their carers across BaNES working alongside other specialist professionals, including GPs and partnership agencies.
You will play a key role in responsive, person centred and needs-led mental health assessments as well as brief interventions. You will be a team player and someone who is able to show sensitivity and tact as an essential requirement, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
The team is committed to supporting continued professional development, and actively promotes a learning culture within the team. We value the importance of staff wellbeing and foster this enthusiastically.
This role has an abundance of variety, challenges and rewards. If this role sounds appealing then we would very much like to hear from you.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
1. To provide information, proportional assessment and sign posting to patients and their family and carers presenting with mental health problems/needs in community settings.
2. To foster strong collaborative and trusting working relationships with the referring agent/Primary Care Health Care Professionals underpinned by an educative and solutions focussed philosophy whilst providing them with credible clinical expertise.

Please refer the Job description for details