Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner

Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
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 KMMH 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

• Clinical: To provide a biopsychosocial assessment of patients who attend the hospital with a known or suspected mental health problem, including those with dementia or delirium.
• Share expertise of mental health crises in over 65s. Work in close partnership with the Acute Hospital Trust, and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust teams in order to promote good working relationships and effective clinical care.
• Ability to assess where social need is greater than mental or physical health need and work with colleagues to coordinate appropriate plans of care for patients.
• Demonstrate risk management, and safeguarding issues, practicing safely and in accordance with individual patient need

Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
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. And 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 doing well together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be able to 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.
• The post holder will have the ability to work autonomously when carrying out assessments and planning care and collecting data.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
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

Important Information:
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.

Probation Period. New employees external to the trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are signed up to NHS England's Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter
The trust takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.

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