Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner

Job overview
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 KMPT 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 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

• Provide a hospital based mental health service to patients of the Acute Trust
• Assess referrals made from the district hospital; work a small caseload of complex clients and will liaise with referrers involved, offering training, consultation and advice to colleagues working in the Acute hospital setting.
• Enable timely triage, assessment and intervention of those with co morbid physical illness and mental illness and ensure that appropriate treatments are accessed where available. These assessments will be completed within the identified framework of 1hr for triage, and 4hrs for a full LPS assessment.
• Provide clinical supervision for band 6 practitioners.
• Provide a biopsychosocial assessment of patients who attend the hospital with a known or suspected mental health problem, including those with dementia or delirium.
• 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.
• Assess and anticipate individual needs of patient in crisis, taking appropriate action and communicating to relevant agencies/parties as required.

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.

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

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

KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
Please see Apply. 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.
Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave Dependant on length of NHS service
Other paid/unpaid leave This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.
Non paid leave for career breaks
Staff Support KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work related problems.
NHS discounts and shopping