Job summary
- Main area
- Liaison
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24/7)
- Job ref
- 380-WK0224-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Multiple Site Locations
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner
Band 7
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic, forward thinking leaders to join our Liaison Psychiatry Services as we transition to the national Core 24 model to meet KMPT transformation priorities. Liaison psychiatry is a crucial component of the 24/7 Urgent Care Model, providing a fantastic chance for motivated individuals interested in working in an acute hospital setting. This role offers the opportunity to deepen your knowledge in both physical healthcare and crisis intervention.
We have a number of Band 7 Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner roles within our six liaison psychiatry teams which cover the county of Kent. You will be based at one of our sites in Dartford, Medway, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, Ashford, or Margate.
We are seeking highly motivated, enthusiastic mental health professionals committed to promoting patient-focused care and treatment for adults of all ages in an acute hospital environment.
Successful candidates will possess excellent leadership skills and will work across the acute general hospital, providing mental health triage, assessments and brief interventions to patients in the emergency departments and inpatient wards. Additionally, they will offer support, advice, and training to junior colleagues within the team and acute hospital colleagues.
The successful candidates will receive comprehensive induction, regular supervision and reflective practice. The role requires working a flexible shift pattern over a 24/7 schedule.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a hospital based mental health service to patients of the Acute Trust
- Assess referrals made from the district hospital; work a small caseload of complex clients and will liaise with referrers involved, offering training, consultation and advice to colleagues working in the Acute hospital setting.
- Enable timely triage, assessment and intervention of those with co morbid physical illness and mental illness and ensure that appropriate treatments are accessed where available. These assessments will be completed within the identified framework of 1hr for triage, and 4hrs for a full LPS assessment.
- Provide clinical supervision for band 6 practitioners.
- Provide a biopsychosocial assessment of patients who attend the hospital with a known or suspected mental health problem, including those with dementia or delirium.
- Formulate a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, integrated plan of care and communicate to relevant parties in a timely fashion. Involve carers at every step when appropriate.
- Assess and anticipate individual needs of patient in crisis, taking appropriate action and communicating to relevant agencies/parties as required. Report all incidents as per the Trust incident reporting guidelines and policy.
- Assess and anticipate individual needs of patient in crisis, taking appropriate action and communicating to relevant agencies/parties as required.
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
**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.
Person specification
Qualifications and Registation
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC pin
- Post-registration therapy qualification or wish and ability to work towards this
- Educated or working at Masters level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- To have undertaken the Practice Supervisor qualification/training
- Additional qualifications or experience in specialists areas such as: ASD/Dual diagnosis/Dementia/Complex emotional dysregulation /High intensity users
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience at senior nurse (band 6 or above) of one year and above
- Experience of working individually with people using a CBT or similar therapeutic approach OR • Experience of working in the community with people with mental health problems
- Experience of identifying, assessing and managing clinical risk
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aine Timmins
- Job title
- North Kent Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07521000162
- Additional information
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