Role Overview
We have an excellent opportunity within our Enhanced Support and Liaison Service for a Liaison Practitioner (Inpatient pathway). You will be based within the LDA Enhanced Support and Liaison Service and have a dedicated focus on the inpatient pathway.
By working alongside the Specialist Liaison Practitioner, you will work with inpatient colleagues to support and encourage a high standard of healthcare being provided for all service users with a Learning Disability and/or Autism who also have a mental health need and are under the care of LPFT inpatient services.
It is a county‑wide, 7‑day per week service which functions as part of a multi‑agency pathway, working with service users, providers, carers, families, social care and health partners to enable people with a learning disability and/or autism in Lincolnshire to receive appropriate care in the right place at the right time.
Levels of Support
* Level 1 – Generic support
* Level 2 – Patient Specific Support
* Level 3 – Enhanced Patient Specific
Pathways Offered
* Community Liaison Pathways
* Inpatient/discharge Pathway
* Enhanced and intensive community Intervention & Support
It is the inpatient pathway that you will be focused on.
Please note that the job description is subject to job evaluation.
You will work across service boundaries that will include, but not be limited to, inpatient colleagues, community colleagues, carers, family and the individual. You will support with advice, reasonable adjustments, encouraging a collaborative streamlined approach to care planning, proactive discharge planning and readmission avoidance planning.
Under the guidance of the Specialist Liaison Practitioner, you will oversee those inpatients with a Learning Disability and/or Autism and bring in colleagues from the ESLS MDT as required. You will be working closely with mainstream services and stakeholders across the wider Lincolnshire System, encouraging a joined‑up approach to the care received.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well‑led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sonia Sansom
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: sonia.sansom2@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07955 404441
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