Psychiatric Liaison Operational Team Manager | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Posting date:	11 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	10 April 2026
Location:	Pembury, TN2 4QJ
Company:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7865288/380-WK0358-A

Summary

Kent & Medway Mental Health NHS Trust provides a liaison mental health assessment service to the Emergency Department and wards at the counties acute hospitals. It’s a challenging and rewarding service to work in.

You will be 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.

The Pembury Liaison Psychiatry Service will be operating 24/7, 365 days a year. There is an expectation that the successful candidate will work predominantly Monday to Friday.

Ability to travel to different sites across the Trust in a timely manner
• To provide operational leadership and expertise to a team of clinicians who often work alone, to ensure the timely delivery of a safe and effective assessment service to the general hospitals for people aged 18 and over referred with mental health problems, dementia and co-morbid physical illness.
• To maintain clinical expertise and leadership skills through regular patient contact (minimum requirement of 1 shift per week).
• To ensure systems and processes exist to support staff performance in accordance with Trust objectives.
• To report on and contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and audit of the performance and clinical practice of the liaison service.
• To liaise with and work collaboratively with Acute Trust colleagues to promote the interface between acute and specialist inpatient and community services and enhance patient experience and recovery.
• To coordinate a training programme to the general hospital workforce

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

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. And 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 doing 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.


This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Mar 2026

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