CARE HOME LIAISON SERVICE –
A NEW APPROACH TO MANAGING MENTAL
HEALTH
Aimed at GPs and Clinical Commissioners and Care Home Managers
10 MAY 2013, 9.30-4.15, Lecture Room 1, Education Centre,
Hollins Park Hospital, Hollins Lane, Warrington WA2 8WA
9.00
Coffee and Registration
9.15
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Ashley Baldwin, Associate Medical Director (Medical
Education), 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation
Trust
9.30
Setting up a Care Home
Liaison Service – Lessons
Learnt
Joanne Hirst
Senior Clinical Nurse Older Peoples M H Liaison Service
Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust
10.15
Multi-Disciplinary Aspects
of a Care Home Liaison
Service
Cathie Jones, Team Manager
Carla Whittaker, Senior Nurse Practitioner
5 Boroughs Care Home Liaison Service
11.00
Coffee Break
11.15
Early Dementia Experience
and Dusk Till Dawn
Support
12.00
Lunch
Professor Thomas
Dean of Faculty of Health
University of Chester
1.00
Care Home Liaison from a
Care Home Perspective
Lesley Vaughan and Ann Cowgill
Roby House Residential Home
1.30
Role of the Advanced
Nurse Practitioner in Care
Home Liaison
Kate Dutton, Graham Lamph, Jennifer Settle
Advanced Practitioner
5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
2.15
Coffee Break & Networking
2.45
A City United: How Sporting
Memories are being used in
Care Homes in Leeds
Tony Jameson-Allen, Director
Sporting Memories Network
3.30
Non Pharmacological
Interventions
Suzanne Lee
Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Lead Clinician - LLAMHS
4.15
Close
Lunch kindly sponsored by Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
To book a place please contact Linda Buchanan on 01925 664477 or email
Linda.Buchanan@5bp.nhs.uk
FACILITATORS:
Jo Hirst
Jo Hirst qualified as A RMN in 1995. She has a wealth of experience in Older Peoples Mental
Health Services, including acute mental health and community mental health services, during
which time she completed her degree and registered as a clinical nurse specialist. Her interest
in liaison psychiatry began in her role as mental health discharge coordinator at Rotherham
General Hospital focused on working across partner organisations to fundamentally refocus the
approach to the provision of services for older people with both physical and mental health
problems and younger people with dementia on acute wards at Rotherham General Hospital.
She has been in her current post as Senior Clinical Nurse of the Older Peoples Mental Health
Liaison Service since June 2009. The service currently provides rapid proactive mental health
assessment for older people residing in care homes in the Doncaster area and inpatients with
the local acute trust. Jo has a passionate interest in the needs of older people with mental
health problems in general hospital settings and their pathways of care including the training
and education of staff to improve pathways and quality of care. The service won the Nursing
Times Award 2008 – Patient Pathway making Quality Count. The liaison element of the service
is currently undergoing a formal evaluation to demonstrate the value of liaison services in acute
hospitals.
Professor M Thomas
Professor Mike Thomas has been working in both the health and higher education sectors for over thirty
years and is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Chester. Whilst
undertaking this role he continues to work in clinical practice providing supervision to clinical
psychotherapists and maintaining a case-load. Mike has been a Dean of Faculty three times in separate
institutions. In his career he has also been a Head of School, a Head of Department (twice) and
Associate Dean (twice) covering such diverse areas as nursing, allied health professions, biosciences,
psychology, medical education and even engineering. Outside of academia and healthcare Mike also
works with ex-service staff supporting a project which enables veterans to gain access to new career
opportunities. He is active in several international and national bodies and groups, a Trustee and
Governor for a number of charitable and educational institutions and presents papers or publishes in
both the leadership field and on policy analysis in healthcare.
Cathie Jones
Cathie started as a Nurse Cadet at Doncaster Royal Infirmary in 1973 and qualified as RMN in
1978 at the York School of Nursing. She has had experience of working in the private and
public sector since qualifying including working for 13 years in Social Services provider services
as a Residential Home Manager then as Assistant Service Manager. This included developing
Dementia Day Services and managing domiciliary care services. Her experience in NHS
includes working as an in-patient Manager, most recently as Team Manager for the Memory
Service and CMHT in Warrington. She is currently seconded into the role of Operational
Manager with the LLAMS Care Home Liaison Team.
Jennifer Settle
Jennifer Settle is a Registered Mental Nurse with over 30yrs experience in old age psychiatry. From
starting her career as a nursing assistant in the old asylums of the 70s she has progressed through the
ranks of student nurse, Staff Nurse, Ward Sister and Acting Nursing Officer. She has worked as a
qualified nurse in various NHS Hospitals, Care Homes and Community settings. Jennifer completed her
BSc (Hons) in Dementia Studies at Bradford University, continued her studies achieving an MSc (Dis) in
Advanced Practice and then completed her Non- Medical Prescribing at Chester University. Jennifer has
recently presented her work on the importance of early diagnosis of the unknown population with
dementia to the Nursing Times. This work was the result of a joint collaborative clinic with a consultant
geriatrician from an acute Trust and won a Highly Commended award for 5 Boroughs Partnership at the
prestigious Nursing Times Awards in London in 2012. Jennifer is passionate and committed to all
aspects of later life and memory services and currently works as an Advanced Practitioner in the newly
formed Care Home Liaison Service.
Tony Jameson-Allen
After four years working as a caddie on the European Professional Golf Tour, Tony was persuaded to
have a ‘proper’ career and trained to be a psychiatric nurse in 1992. His first placement was on an older
people’s mental health ward and it was there he first encountered a person living with dementia. That
experience had a profound impact on the course of his career and on qualifying, he chose to work with
people with memory problems and dementia. Having worked in a variety of community and ward based
roles, Tony’s final post was as a clinical team leader overseeing in-patient, day services and community
teams. He then spent eight years working regionally and nationally on older peoples mental health
initiatives with NIMHE, CSIP and finally at the Department of Health at the National Mental Health
Development Unit, where he enjoyed working across mental health programmes as the knowledge and
online Lead for the unit. Having been introduced to the work on football reminiscence therapy in
Scotland by the CEO of Alzheimer Scotland, Tony joined forces with his fellow Director, Chris Wilkins,
and founded the Sporting Memories Network CIC.
Dr Suzanne M Lee
Dr Lee is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist within the 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
(5BP). She is currently working on a fixed term contract within the 5BP Care Home Liaison Service. Dr
Lee also holds the position of Lead Clinician within the Later Life and Memory Services Senior
Operational Leadership Team. Her main role as Lead Clinician is to provide up to date evidence based
research and guidance to ensure the provision of high quality clinical services. Dr Lee has worked as a
psychologist within the National Health Service for over 10 years and has been working as a
Neuropsychology specialist (PgDip) for the previous 6 years. Her main interest and area of work is
dementia care and has numerous publications within this field. Dr Lee is a Chartered Clinical
Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, and a Registered Practitioner with the Health
Professions Council. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Division of Clinical Psychology within the
BPS (AFBPsS).
Kate Dutton
Kate Dutton is an Advanced Practitioner working in the Later Life and Memory Service, Care
Home Liaison Team of the 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust. Kate
is a Registered General and Mental Health Nurse with over 36 years’ experience. After
qualifying as a Registered Nurse and later as a Midwife she began her career in mental health
nursing in 1999. For a number of years Kate lived in Zimbabwe and worked as a senior theatre
nurse and Midwife in a rural hospital, she also nursed in a spinal injuries unit in Harare. Since
returning to the UK, Kate has completed a BSc (Hons), MSc in Advanced Practice and a nonmedical prescribing qualification at Chester University, whilst working for the Trust across
inpatient and community settings. Kate is completely committed to all aspects of quality care for
older people living with dementia. She has been committed to the concept of multi-disciplinary
high quality care delivery for the residents of care homes in her present role and was involved
in the initiation and implementation of the current care home project.