# Liaison Psychiatry Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- **Location:** Priority House (ME16 9PH)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24 hour service shift work)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-25T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-11T14:10:52.027Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Gillingham/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8384662
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8384662?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Liaison Psychiatry is a challenging and rewarding service to work in, we need the best quality of candidates to help us grow our service further into a 24-hour service operating from Medway Maritime Hospital.

Mental Health Nurses & Occupational Therapists encouraged to apply.

We are looking for a confident and experienced mental health clinician, who will work across the acute general hospital to provide mental health assessments, care, advice and training to both the Emergency Departments and in-patient wards.

You will be able to meet the assessment and formulation needs of both working age adults and older adults have a good insight into your training needs to fulfil this role and have excellent interpersonal skills that you will use to facilitate high quality mental health assessments and to build good working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

You will be committed to the parity of esteem agenda and work closely with both physical and mental health clinicians to ensure a seamless delivery of care.

### Main duties of the job

- Work as part of a psychiatric liaison team providing a liaison and assessment service 7 days per week, that will involve working unsocial hours and public holidays.
- Offer an assessment service to patients aged 18+ (with no upper age limit) presenting at the general hospital with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and diagnosed psychiatric illnesses.
- Provide a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments.
- Deliver a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients as required.
- Assist and support general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.
- Provide formal and informal education and case consultation to registered and unregistered staff.
- Represent mental health services within the Hospitals.
- Provide a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.

In return for the above, we offer real commitment to your professional development, and regular supervision within a supportive working environment.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant experience at Band 5 and completion of Preceptorship
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision

**Desirable**

- Experience of being involved in service developments or audits
- Experience in older adult assessment
- Liaison Psychiatry experience.

### Training, Qualifications and Registration

**Essential**

- Registered Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy including registration with the relevant regulatory body.

**Desirable**

- Qualified Practice Assessor
- Evidence of continuing professional development

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 183.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10713889)

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