Job summary
- Main area
- Lead nurse Liaison Psychiatry
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-ICS-418
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clayponds Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/09/2025
Employer heading
Lead nurse Liaison Psychiatry
Band 8a
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are looking for Liaison Psychiatry Lead Nurse to join our close-knit multidisciplinary team in Clayponds Hospital and Rehabilitation Unit. If you are a Psychiatry Nurse interested to join a team of enthusiastic and committed professionals in delivering an integrated and rehabilitative care to patients, this role/s will be ideal for you.
The post holders will be integral part of the in-patient team. As a Registered Nurse you will be responsible for supporting your Manager in ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being.
Clayponds Hospital is a 70 bedded, medically led rehab unit that provides personalised support and care to enable people to recover from periods of acute ill-health, regain function and prepare them to return home and back to their local communities. The unit has 3 different wards; Jasmin and Magnolia being the multi-pathology wards and Rosemary is a neuro ward.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join the service as a member of the multidisciplinary at Clayponds Rehabilitation Hospital.
The Lead Nurse Liaison Psychiatry (LP) at Clayponds Hospital will have a personal case load and will be responsible for the assessment, formulation and prescribing of care planning, including discharge planning within agreed protocols for patients presenting with complex mental and physical health needs. The post holder will be recognised as an expert practitioner in Liaison Psychiatry. The Lead Nurse Liaison Psychiatry post holder will provide, clinical expertise to the Clayponds Hospital patients and Multi- Disciplinary Team and will act as an autonomous practitioner in forming clinical decisions and complex management plans in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients referred to the Liaison Psychiatry service.
The role will be an integral part of the Clayponds Hospital multidisciplinary team. The Lead Nurse will work within a defined scope of practice and to agreed clinical standards as defined within the London Liaison Psychiatry key competencies framework The role will be multi factorial including clinical assessment, formulation, non-medical prescribing and holistic treatments, including both mental health and physical health.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practitioner training or completion of Accreditation of prior learning (APL)
- Current NMC or HCPC registration
- Clinical supervision training and experience.
Desirable criteria
- NHS leadership qualification
- Additional MSc degree in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Non-medical prescriber qualification
- Post graduate/ qualification in teaching, Quality improvement or research
- Sign off Mentor
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in an AHP or nursing at a senior level.
- Have an extensive portfolio of Mental Health Practitioner experience, of which a significant proportion will be within a Liaison Psychiatry position
- Sound Knowledge of local and national health policy, including LPS commissioning framework.
- Experience of Quality Improvement and delivery of improvement projects.
- Experience of Serious Untoward incident report writing and complaints response.
- Autonomous patient consultation including: clinical history taking, diagnosis and formulation
- Independent management of a clinical caseload.
- Evidence of expert clinical practice and judgement within sphere of practice.
- Leadership across organisation and within a team.
- Demonstrate a significant contribution to education, practice and service development internally and externally.
- Evidence of incorporating research and evidence into practice
- Utilising advanced skills of reflection and critical appraisal to instigate and effectively manage change.
- Management and leadership experience
Desirable criteria
- Teaching experience
- Service innovation/redesign experience and proven track record of change management
- Leadership experience
- Experience of working in a wide range of mental health settings.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Clinical assessment and formulation skills in Liaison Psychiatry services.
- Ability to receive and give highly complex clinical information clearly with service users, carers and colleagues, including highly stressful situations, which require highly sensitive communication
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team with good time management skills and ability to prioritise workload.
- Ability to autonomously provide medication advice
- Negotiation and problem solving skills in contentious and/or antagonistic situations and ability to communicate clear decisions and rationale when consensual agreement cannot be reached.
- Demonstrate ability to teach a wide range of professional staff groups
- Experience of clinical audit and the ability to interpret results and change service delivery accordingly
- Solution Focused
- Highly developed communication skills, demonstrated through presentations, report writing and facilitated learning in both academic and practice settings
- Evidence of sharing and developing the evidence base for practice through publication.
- IT skills, experience of using Microsoft packages
- Enthusiasm for achieving excellence.
- Demonstrate empathy through highly developed self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Flexible and able to determine priorities at times of competing demand
Desirable criteria
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Ability to Influence local and national guidelines for clinical practice.
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
- Christine Wendam
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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