Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the West Kent Liaison Psychiatry Service at Tunbridge Wells Hospital as a Senior Practitioner. This role encompasses vital responsibilities such as managing complex mental health needs, conducting assessments, and providing training to enhance care quality. You'll be part of a committed team dedicated to patient-centred care and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Previous experience at senior nurse (band 6 or above).
• Educated or working towards Masters degree level via specialist modules.
• Ability to travel to different sites across the Trust in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and responding to acute hospital referrals.
• Providing specialist assessment for adults with co-morbid conditions.
• Offering training and advice to acute hospital staff.

Skills

Clinical practice

Risk assessment

Teamwork

Compassion

Training development

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist

Masters degree (or working towards)

Job description

Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner

Employer Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Location Pembury, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 20 Jun 2025

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Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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

About us

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 arerated 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 strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo 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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Job description

Job responsibilities

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Please see attached Job Description for more detailed duties of the role.

Job description
Job responsibilities

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Please see attached Job Description for more detailed duties of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Qualifications andRegistered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational therapist and/or relevant clinical qualification. Training
• Post-registration therapy qualification or wish and ability to work towards this
• Educated or working towards Masters degree level via specialist modules

Desirable

• Occupational therapist with post registration experience of working in mental health
• Undertaken practice supervisor

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience at senior nurse (band 6 or above)
• Working individually with people using a CBT or similar therapeutic approach
• Working in the community with people with mental health problems

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Sound knowledge of mental health problems particularly the impact of physical and mental illness on wellbeing
• Ability to develop and provide training packages
• Knowledge of relevant legislation

Additional requirement

Essential

• Ability to travel to different sites across the Trust in a timely manner
• Computer literate

Person Specification
Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Qualifications andRegistered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational therapist and/or relevant clinical qualification. Training
• Post-registration therapy qualification or wish and ability to work towards this
• Educated or working towards Masters degree level via specialist modules

Desirable

• Occupational therapist with post registration experience of working in mental health
• Undertaken practice supervisor

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience at senior nurse (band 6 or above)
• Working individually with people using a CBT or similar therapeutic approach
• Working in the community with people with mental health problems

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Sound knowledge of mental health problems particularly the impact of physical and mental illness on wellbeing
• Ability to develop and provide training packages
• Knowledge of relevant legislation

Additional requirement

Essential

• Ability to travel to different sites across the Trust in a timely manner
• Computer literate

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address

Tunbridge Wells Hospital

Tonbridge Road

Pembury

TN2 4QJ

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