# Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/liaison-psychiatry-senior-clinical-practitioner/9e8a175e-0f3f-43a3-a94a-64a4be8b3925 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/liaison-psychiatry-senior-clinical-practitioner/9e8a175e-0f3f-43a3-a94a-64a4be8b3925.md ## 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 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift working - long days (07:30-20:00), nights (19:30 - 08:00) and weekends) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T12:51:09.658Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Ashford/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Community_Mental_Health_Liaison_Psychiatry/Community_Mental_Health_Liaison_Psychiatry-v8302414 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8302414?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities 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. ### 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** - Previous experience as a senior clinician (band 6 or above) - Working individually with people using a CBT or similar therapeutic approach - Working in the community with people with mental health problems ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Sound knowledge of mental health problems particularly the impact of physical and mental illness on wellbeing - Ability to develop and provide training packages - Knowledge of relevant legislation ### Additional requirement **Essential** - Ability to travel to different sites across the Trust in a timely manner - Computer literate ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - Qualified Mental Health Nurse or Occupational therapist and relevant HCPC/NMC registration - Post-registration therapy qualification or wish and ability to work towards this - Educated or working towards Masters degree level via specialist modules - To have undertaken Practice Assessor Training ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 313.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10642579) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.