# 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/senior-clinical-practitioner/2271f82e-33bf-4d70-81f1-a4eba638c8f9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-practitioner/2271f82e-33bf-4d70-81f1-a4eba638c8f9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust - **Location:** Priority House (ME16 9PH) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practitioner - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift working included) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T11:31:34.360Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Gillingham/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Community_Mental_Health_Liaison_Psychiatry/Community_Mental_Health_Liaison_Psychiatry-v8208298 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8208298?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Join our North Kent Liaison Psychiatry Service as a Senior Liaison Psychiatry Practitioner at Medway Maritime 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. ### Main duties of the job - 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 ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification. ### 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 ### Experince **Essential** - Previous experience at senior nurse (band 6 or above) of one year and above - Experience of identifying, assessing and managing clinical risk ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Ability to develop and provide training packages - Ability to develop strong therapeutic alliance and engage individuals in treatment - Computer literate - Ability to work under own initiative - Ability to liaise effectively with others ### Training, Qualifications and Registration **Essential** - Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational therapist and/or relevant clinical qualification - Post-registration therapy qualification or wish and ability to work towards this ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [job description (pdf, 192.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10519836) ## 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.