# Mental Health Hospital Liaison Worker

**Company**: Change Grow Live
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £28557.79 to £32802.41
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Mental Health Hospital Liaison Worker at Change Grow Live, you'll be primarily stationed at the prestigious Highgate Mental Health Centre within the vibrant Camden borough.

Your role will involve attending the Mental Health A&E (MHCAS) and psychiatric treatment wards where you'll provide rapid access to assessments, brief interventions, and facilitate liaison, discharge planning, and onward referrals for service users who are in acute care due to mental health illness, and are also experiencing substance use issues.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide specialist assessment of patients attending/admitted to hospital with alcohol related issues using AUDIT C and AUDIT 10 screening tools

- Provide advice, support and training to hospital staff regarding drug and alcohol awareness, screening, assessment processes and referral pathways

- Work with community teams to ensure assertive and effective follow up of both repeat presentations and discharges from the hospital

- Develop specific links with identified specialist acute services and provide in-reach to hospital wards including: Gastroenterology/Hepatology; Orthopaedic falls prevention services; specialist clinics (i.e.: Hypertensive Disease); observation ward; ED

**Job responsibilities**

- Set up effective communication and referral pathways with hospital-based specialist teams. Act as a point of contact for acute referrals.

- Participate with acute services to create/maintain a process for targeting repeat attendees, implementing an investigation system that enables wider services to critically evaluate the circumstances around an individuals hospital admission.

- Provide support to acute hospital services to avoid unnecessary admission to hospital of people who can be supported and treated at community addiction services.

- Develop specific links with identified specialist acute services and provide in reach to hospital wards including Gastroenterology/Hepatology; specialist clinics, observation ward; A&E.

- Provide advanced assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care to a small, complex, specialist caseload of patients who misuse alcohol and/or drugs, while they remain in a hospital setting or as part of the discharge to community plan.

- Work with community teams to ensure assertive and effective follow up of both repeat presentations and discharges from the hospital.

- Provide support and advice to ward staff of those identified as misusing alcohol and/or drugs to prevent further complications from their conditions both in the short term and the long term.

- Ensure Impact of service targets are met.

- In conjunction with hospital medical staff, undertake specific research/audit related to the advancement of practice in the care of people who misuse alcohol and/or drugs.

- Provide specialist substance misuse training to acute, specialist colleagues.

**Person Specification**

- Experience delivering brief interventions or working within hospital, health or substance-use settings. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills able to work confidently with hospital colleagues, patients and partner agencies. Proactive and able to work autonomously while maintaining strong team connections. Skilled in prioritising workload, managing competing demands and working compassionately in fast-paced environments. Knowledge of safeguarding and mental health practice. A commitment to continuous learning and improving outcomes for people we support.

**Benefits** No benefits mentioned.

## Skills

### Required
- AUDIT C
- AUDIT 10
- substance misuse
- mental health
- communication
- relationship-building
- prioritisation
- safeguarding

### Nice to have
- Advanced professional qualification in substance misuse, counselling, or social work.

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