SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
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POST:<br />
TRAINER:<br />
EMPLOYING TRUST:<br />
TRAINING BASE:<br />
Liaison Psychiatry<br />
Dr Peter Aitken<br />
Devon Partnership NHS Trust<br />
Wonford House Hospital, Dryden Road, Exeter, EX2 5AF<br />
JOB DESCRIPTION: This integrated mental health and wellbeing service will maintain and improve current<br />
mental health care provision to RD&E hospital. All service user presentations to the RD&E that are referred to<br />
the service will be seen and assessed by an integrated clinical team, who can deliver sophisticated assessments<br />
and interventions shaped to the needs of patients of the RD&E, draw on all three functions in any of the<br />
Mental Health Networks or arrange care out of county. The team uses bio-psycho-social assessment,<br />
signposting, brief intervention, or brokerage depending on identified level of need. The team conducts<br />
environmental risk assessment & management, mediation, group and team work, anxiety management, care<br />
planning, contingency planning, education, training, mentoring and medico-legal advice. The team uses a brief<br />
intervention tool kit based on motivational interviewing toward engagement with the care plan, problem<br />
solving or CBT based sessions at the bedside or in outpatient follow up.<br />
The team was commissioned three years ago to provide to adults of working age 0900 – 1700 Monday to<br />
Friday. (The same model of service is offered from the Exeter Crisis Team as the ‘Hospital At Night Team’<br />
between 0000 – 0900.The SHO on call service provides from 5pm - midnight) The liaison team provides a<br />
service within one hour to the Emergency Department of the RD&E and a same day service to the 650 inpatient<br />
beds on the Wonford and Heavitree sites. Its performance is measured against 650 assessed annually,<br />
admissions avoided, action against delay to discharge, actions to avoid repeated admission, compliance with<br />
the 4 hour wait, suicide reduction.<br />
Health and Neuropsychology<br />
The service has been developed over many years to meet the psychological needs of inpatients in the RD&E,<br />
and to provide a neuropsychology service to adults with acquired neuro-disability.<br />
The health psychology team uses psychological assessment, brief interventions, short term psychotherapy<br />
(CBT, CAT) and multidisciplinary multimodal group work in outpatients. The team conduct care planning,<br />
education, training, supervision for psychological interventions and leadership of bio-psychosocial group<br />
interventions. The health psychology service is currently provided to specialist services- pain management,<br />
respiratory medicine; cancer care, kidney unit; otolaryngology. The service also provides rapid response to<br />
referrals from any department, where psychological distress impedes medical or surgical treatment.<br />
The neuropsychology service offers psychological assessment; neuropsychological assessments; brief<br />
interventions; neuro-rehabilitation; short term psychotherapy (CBT, CAT) and couple therapy with adjustment<br />
issues in outpatients. The team conduct care planning; coordination of bio-psychosocial intervention and<br />
support packages; education & training; support, coaching and supervision with enablers. The median number<br />
of individual therapy sessions delivered is 6. Integrated multi-professional group sessions up to a maximum of<br />
6. The service is currently provided to neuro-reablement inpatient and community units, including Mardon.<br />
The health and neuropsychology services are available 0900-1700 Monday to Friday.<br />
Research Innovation and Improvement<br />
The department of psychological medicine is co-located with the Directorate of Research & Development<br />
where there is an MRC NIHR funded program of research into suicide prevention and harm minimisation from<br />
self harm, a research support service, an innovation group developing novel uses of information management<br />
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