Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,617 - £48,778 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 October 2025 |
| Location: | Basildon, SS16 5NL |
| Company: | Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7508609/364-A-9398 |
Summary
The role of the Community and Inpatient Liaison practitioner will be to provide temporary care coordination and to interface with inpatient wards in order to support the flow of patient’s between inpatient and community services and to facilitate discharges from the inpatient service into the community. This would also involve supporting with care planning, undertaking care act assessments, capacity assessments and relevant paperwork for panel presentations to either the local authority or the 117 panels with support from the ECC Senior Practitioners.
It would be expected that the Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner would largely attend ward reviews, attend professionals meetings, liaise and interface with care coordinators, discharge coordinators and inpatient ward staff in order to contribute towards safe and effective working relationships with other teams, services, and organisations. The Community and Inpatient Liaison role would also support discharges from community services by identifying and facilitating discharges for those patients who no longer require secondary care services.
The Community and Inpatient Liaison Practitioner would be expected to also support with the general functioning of the team such as being on the duty rota and potentially supporting with providing cover to facilitate joint appointments with other team members and to take part in regular multi-disciplinary team discussions.
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
• To support the existing community staff to develop their knowledge and understanding of available treatment and support options, both within EPUT services, and with the wider services available within the local areas that the team cover
• To support the community processes that facilitate flow and capacity through the system from inpatient to FRT and from FRT to RWB or into the primary care domains.
• To support care coordinators in managing the practical elements of discharge planning, care act assessments, 117 panel presentations etc. to reduce delays and improve working relationships between services, while allowing the care coordinator to maintain a therapeutic relationship with inpatients and maintain their visits with other patients in the community.
• Identify, assess and manage clinical and non-clinical risks / hazards in your area through the completion of the relevant risk assessments and the implementation of risk treatment plans for inclusion in the local and Trust’s risk registers through the Risk Management department
• Provide supervision and annual appraisals to junior members of staff and oversee the Hub compliance for supervision and appraisal performance
• Support adherence to key performance indicators (KPI’s) and implement strategies to manage compliance with percentage targets
• Implement HR policy and process with a particular focus on employee well-being including sickness absence monitoring
• Facilitate Access to training both mandatory and specialist and implement strategies to improve compliance where difficulties arise
• Work with colleagues from the wider health and social care economy to facilitate an integrated patient experience supporting new initiatives and service transformation to improve patient care at a Neighbourhood, community and secondary level
• Support student and learner placements and experiences including nursing and allied health professionals
• Implement quality initiatives to develop improved ways of working and the patient/carer experience
• Participate in recruitment and the HR Process and review along with the clinical manager skill mix and service need.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025