Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Senior Clinical Practitioner
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Join our West Kent Liaison Psychiatry Service as a Senior Liaison Psychiatry 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
- 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
- Ensuring service targets and quality standards are met, utilising 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.
Responsibilities
As a crucial Liaison Psychiatry team member, you'll combine expert clinical practice with leadership. Your responsibilities include:
- Assessing and responding to acute hospital referrals, adhering to CORE24 standards (1-hour triage, 4-hour full assessment)
- Conducting comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments for various mental health conditions
- Managing complex caseloads of clients with co-morbid physical and mental illnesses
- Performing expert risk assessment and management, including safeguarding processes
- Addressing situations where social needs outweigh mental or physical health needs, coordinating care plans
- Providing specialist assessment and intervention for adults (18+) with co-morbid illness
- Acting as an educational resource, offering training and advice to acute hospital staff and liaison psychiatry colleagues on mental health crises in all age groups
- Fostering close working relationships with acute hospital teams and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust
- Providing clinical supervision for Band 6 practitioners and supporting their development
- Assisting in leading change processes for LPS accreditation and CORE24 service delivery
- Leading in a specific clinical area (e.g., neurodiversity, substance misuse, dementia/delirium, self-harm)
- Developing clinical audit initiatives, leading on service improvements for users and carers (increasing PREM & CREM completion), and conducting clinical inductions for new clinicians
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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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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tom Clarke
- Job title: West Kent Service Manager
- Email address: tom.clarke6@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07879425886
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