Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical PractitionerNHS

Job summary

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 or Occupational Therapist 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.

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role**

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.

Job description

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.

About us

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

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. 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 working well together.

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