Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust is seeking a Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner for the West Kent Liaison Psychiatry Service. The role involves providing essential mental health care in a general hospital, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and supporting the training of hospital staff. Candidates should be committed to patient-centred care and capable of managing diverse mental health conditions.

Qualifications

• Mid-Senior level with qualifications in mental health.
• Strong background in clinical practice and leadership.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments.

Responsibilities

• Manage urgent and routine referrals in a general hospital.
• Teach and support acute hospital colleagues on mental health.
• Assess and respond to acute hospital referrals adhering to CORE24 standards.

Skills

Patient-centred care

Compassion

Empathy

Respect

Holistic care

Risk assessment

Education

Relevant clinical qualifications

Job description

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Join our West Kent Liaison Psychiatry Service as a Liaison Psychiatry Senior Practitioner at Tunbridge Wells Hospital. This dynamic role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide vital hospital-based mental health care within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.

You'll be responsible for urgent and routine referrals, complex assessments, and managing diverse mental health needs in a general hospital setting. A key part of the role involves teaching and supporting acute hospital colleagues to enhance their mental health understanding and promote holistic care. You'll also ensure service targets and quality standards are met, utilizing IT systems for documentation.

We're seeking a proactive, collaborative individual committed to quality improvement, who embodies patient-centred care, compassion, empathy, respect, and dignity. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals experiencing mental health challenges, we encourage you to apply.

• As a crucial Liaison Psychiatry team member, you'll combine expert clinical practice with leadership.
• You'll assess and respond to acute hospital referrals, adhering to CORE24 standards (1-hour triage, 4-hour full assessment).
• Your responsibilities include comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments for various mental health conditions.
• You'll manage complex caseloads of clients with co-morbid physical and mental illnesses.
• Expert risk assessment and management, including safeguarding processes, are essential.
• You'll also address situations where social needs outweigh mental or physical health needs, coordinating care plans.
• A key aspect is providing specialist assessment and intervention for adults (18+) with co-morbid illness.
• You'll act as an educational resource, offering training, and advice to acute hospital staff and liaison psychiatry colleagues on mental health crises in all age groups
• You'll foster close working relationships with acute hospital teams and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust.
• You'll provide clinical supervision for Band 6 practitioners and support their development.
• You'll also assist in leading change processes for LPS accreditation and CORE24 service delivery
• You'll lead in a specific clinical area (e.g., neurodiversity, substance misuse, dementia/delirium, self-harm)
• You'll develop clinical audit initiatives, lead on service improvements for users and carers (increasing PREM & CREM completion), and conduct clinical inductions for new clinicians
  
  

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.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tom Clarke Job title: West Kent Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07879425886

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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