Liaison Psychiatry Practitioner

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Gillingham, Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Job overview
It's a challenging and rewarding service to work in, and we need the best quality of candidates to help us grow our service further into a 24 hour service.
Mental Health Nurses & Occupational Therapists encouraged to apply.
You will be a confident and experienced mental health clinician, who will work across the acute general hospital to provide mental health assessments, care, advice and training to both the Emergency Departments and in-patient wards.
You will be able to meet the assessment and formulation needs of both working age adults and older adults and have a good insight into your training needs to fulfil this role.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills that you will use to facilitate high quality mental health assessments, and to build good working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
You will be committed to the parity of esteem agenda, and work closely with both physical and mental health clinicians to ensure a seamless delivery of care.
It is a 24 hour service 7 days a week at the William Harvey Hospital, and when required The Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital.
In return for the above, we offer real commitment to your professional development, and regular supervision within a supportive working environment.
Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of a psychiatric liaison team providing a liaison and assessment service 7 days per week that will involve working unsocial hours and public holidays.
• Offer an assessment service to patients aged 18+ (with no upper age limit) presenting at the general hospital with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and diagnosed psychiatric illnesses.
• Provide a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments.
• Deliver a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients as required.
• Assist and support general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.
• Provide formal and informal education and case consultation to registered and unregistered staff.
• Represent mental health services within the Hospitals.
• Provide 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.

Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work as part of a psychiatric liaison team providing a liaison and assessment service 7 days per week that will involve working unsocial hours and public holidays.
• Offer an assessment service to patients aged 18+ (with no upper age limit) presenting at the general hospital with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and diagnosed 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 as required.
• Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.
• Providing formal and informal education and case consultation to registered and unregistered staff.

Person specification

Qualification

• Registered Professional Qualification
• 12 months post qualification experience

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of national and local guidance relevant to Liaison Psychiatry Service

Assessment

• Robust Mental Health Needs assessment including risk, mental state and formulation

KMPT Staff Benefits:

• NHS pension scheme: Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
• Annual leave for Agenda for Change: 27 days for full time or pro-rata if part time; increases with service.
• Flexible working: Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc.
• Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave: Dependent on length of NHS service.
• Other paid/unpaid leave: This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc.