Senior Clinical Practitioner

Kent PLC; Brompton; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Medway Maritime Hospital, part of Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, invites applications for a Senior Liaison Psychiatry Practitioner to deliver hospital-based mental health care within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary setting.

You will manage urgent and routine referrals, undertake biopsychosocial assessments, and lead risk assessment and safeguarding processes while supporting acute hospital staff to provide holistic, patient-centred care.

Qualifications

• Experience in urgent and routine referrals within hospital settings.
• Biopsychosocial assessments for adults with complex mental health needs.
• Ability to teach and support acute hospital colleagues to improve care.

Responsibilities

• Assess and respond to referrals and provide 1-hour triage and 4-hour full assessment per CORE24.
• Lead comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments for various mental health conditions.
• Manage complex caseloads with co-morbid physical and mental illness.
• Perform expert risk assessment and safeguarding processes.
• Provide education and supervision to Band 6 practitioners.
• Lead service improvements and foster collaboration with hospital teams.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical practice

Teaching

Quality improvement

Biopsychosocial assessments

Risk assessment

Safeguarding

Team collaboration

Tools

IT systems

Job description

Join our NorthKent Liaison Psychiatry Service as a Senior Liaison Psychiatry Practitioner at Medway Maritime 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, utilising 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.

• 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
  We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD. Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve. Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident. Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.