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, 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, 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.
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
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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Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
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.
