* Offer an assessment service to patients presenting at the emergency departments with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses
* Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments
* Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients who have predominantly self-harmed
* Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
* Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
* Representing mental health services within the Hospitals Trust.
* Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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