Job summary
- Main area
- West Kent Directorate
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Nights, weekends and bank holidays, Long days)
- Job ref
- 380-WK0283
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tunbridge Wells Hospital
- Town
- Pembury
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychiatric Liaison Practitioner
Band 6
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
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join the innovative Liaison Service?
The liaison psychiatry service aims to provide mental health advice and support to individuals receiving care and treatment at any of the general hospitals in Kent and Medway. The teams work closely with their General Hospital colleagues to ensure that mental health and wellbeing is effectively treated alongside any physical health needs.
The general hospital staff can refer anyone over the age of 18 who attends A&E or is an inpatient on a medical or surgical ward. The team can then offer advice, support or a full mental and psychical health assessment as appropriate.
Are you highly motivated and a qualified Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist?
If you are then this may be the opportunity you have been waiting for, there are Full-time and part-time posts available.
Part time posts will also be considered where possible.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of a psychiatric liaison team providing a liaison and assessment service 7 days per week that will involve working unsocial hours and public holidays.
- Offer an assessment service to patients aged 18+ (with no upper age limit) presenting at the general hospital with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and diagnosed psychiatric illnesses.
- Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments.
- Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients as required.
- Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.
- Providing formal and informal education and case consultation to registered and unregistered staff.
- Representing mental health services within the Hospitals.
- Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.
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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description for full details on vacancy description, responsibilities and person specification.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy including registration with the relevant regulatory body.
- If not a qualified mentor, commitment to work towards this
Desirable criteria
- Registered General Nurse (as a dual trained practitioner)
- Post Graduate Degree/Masters programme
- Qualified Mentor (998 or equivalent)/ Accredited Practice Educator (APPLE programme for OT).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to the mental health trust
- Minimum of 18 months post qualification practice experience in mental health – any age
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading service developments
- Experience of clinical audit and research
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of national and local guidance relevant to liaison psychiatry (e.g. Parity of esteem agenda, Crisis Care Concordat, National Suicide Prevention Strategy, Relevant NICE Guidelines)
- A working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act, Duty of Candour
- Knowledge of the effects of physical health and long term conditions on mental health and wellbeing
- Interpersonal skills: good communicator, problem solving abilities, calm under pressure, engaging, alignment with KMPT values. Ability to work according to Trust Values at all times, especially in complex and challenging situations
- Clinical skills: Robust mental health needs assessment, including risk and Mental State Examination/Formulation ability.
- Training: Ability to deliver in ad hoc and formal education sessions
- Information Technology: Ability to use IT systems effectively and in a timely way
- Travelling: Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
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
- Anja Cedilnik
- Job title
- Operational manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892 638586
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