Job overview Join our West Kent Liaison Psychiatry Service as a Liaison Psychiatry Senior Practitioner at Tunbridge Wells Hospital. This dynamic role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide vital hospital-based mental health care within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment. You'll be responsible for urgent and routine referrals, complex assessments, and managing diverse mental health needs in a general hospital setting. A key part of the role involves teaching and supporting acute hospital colleagues to enhance their mental health understanding and promote holistic care. You'll also ensure service targets and quality standards are met, utilizing IT systems for documentation. We're seeking a proactive, collaborative individual committed to quality improvement, who embodies patient-centred care, compassion, empathy, respect, and dignity. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals experiencing mental health challenges, we encourage you to apply. Main duties of the job As a crucial Liaison Psychiatry team member, you'll combine expert clinical practice with leadership. You'll assess and respond to acute hospital referrals, adhering to CORE24 standards (1-hour triage, 4-hour full assessment). Your responsibilities include comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments for various mental health conditions. You'll manage complex caseloads of clients with co-morbid physical and mental illnesses. Expert risk assessment and management, including safeguarding processes, are essential. You'll also address situations where social needs outweigh mental or physical health needs, coordinating care plans. A key aspect is providing specialist assessment and intervention for adults (18) with co-morbid illness. You'll act as an educational resource, offering training, and advice to acute hospital staff and liaison psychiatry colleagues on mental health crises in all age groups You'll foster close working relationships with acute hospital teams and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust. You'll provide clinical supervision for Band 6 practitioners and support their development. You'll also assist in leading change processes for LPS accreditation and CORE24 service delivery You'll lead in a specific clinical area (e.g., neurodiversity, substance misuse, dementia/delirium, self-harm) You'll develop clinical audit initiatives, lead on service improvements for users and carers (increasing PREM & CREM completion), and conduct clinical inductions for new clinicians 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. Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube Detailed job description and main responsibilities 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. Please see attached Job Description for more detailed duties of the role. 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 KMPT Staff Benefits: NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits. Please see [ Click Apply]. [ Click Apply]/Pensions.aspx for more details. Annual leave for Agenda for Change On appointment to NHS 27 days for full time or pro rata if part time After 5 years NHS service 29 days full time or pro rata if part time After 10 years NHS service 33 days full time or pro rata if part time Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off! Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions. Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits. Recommend a friend campaign If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals, Flexible working Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help. 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