Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner

Job overview
Join our well established Liaison Psychiatry team, who are diligent in creating effective care plans and comprehensive clinical strategies focused on delivering exceptional care for people with acute mental health needs.
We welcome applications from highly motivated and experienced senior psychiatry practitioners who are capable of building and supporting teams of practitioners with effective decision making and communication skills. The ability to facilitate timely interventions and provide specialist assessment that will enhance the best outcome and recovery for adults (18years+) is vital in this role.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced /registered mental health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker with post registration experience of working in mental health. You must have completed practice supervision, be educated to degree level and have or be working towards a level 7 Masters qualification.
In return, we offer our staff opportunities for continuous development through a wide range of training opportunities, both in-house training and access to external training where required.
'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.

Main duties of the job

• Accept referrals of patients aged eighteen years and over for assessment, treatment and coordination with other relevant services.
• Work in collaboration with all members of the Liaison Psychiatry Service and involved agencies.
• Maintain a clinical caseload of patients with co morbid physical and mental illness.
• Provide specialist clinical input, liaison, consultancy and education to colleagues.
• Develop and provide evidence-based treatment plans for identified patients, in collaboration with the patient and referrer.
• Formulate, implement and evaluate treatment programmes.
• Promote the well-being and mental health of people, by providing relevant information and advice to them, their families and supporting agencies.
• Provide advice and support on clinical management and assessment of risk.
• Provide advice on the management of patients subject to the MHA and MCA.

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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and 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 Training

Essential criteria

• Qualifications andRegistered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational therapist and/or relevant clinical qualification. Training
• Post-registration therapy qualification or wish and ability to work towards this
• Educated or working towards Masters degree level via specialist modules

Desirable criteria

• Occupational therapist with post registration experience of working in mental health
• Undertaken practice supervisor

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience at senior nurse (band 6 or above)
• Working individually with people using a CBT or similar therapeutic approach
• Working in the community with people with mental health problems

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Sound knowledge of mental health problems particularly the impact of physical and mental illness on wellbeing
• Ability to develop and provide training packages
• Knowledge of relevant legislation

Additional requirement

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to different sites across the Trust in a timely manner
• Computer literate

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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