Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

7 days ago


Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Mental Health division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust comprises of three directorates; Adult Mental Health, Mental Health Services for Older People and Specialist Services.

More than 2,800 dedicated staff provide vital and integral healthcare services for our patients in a variety of settings, ranging from community through to acute wards, covering a vast geographical area.

We're investing heavily in our staff, facilities and patient care.

As we move into this new chapter, we need a strong, motivated and compassionate workforce to reflect our core values of Honesty, Compassion, Trust, Respect and Teamwork.

There has never been a better time to join our growing team.

We have exciting opportunities across different specialities and services, with an emphasis on career development and progression.

We want to help our staff reach their full potential, and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed.


This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust.

This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period.

This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust.

This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.


The Department of Psychological Medicine is a growing and developing psychiatric liaison service which offers a mental health liaison service to Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) at the QMC and City Hospital campuses.

The focus of our work includes urgent assessments in respect of self harm and mental health emergencies, advice and support to wards in respect of patients experiencing mental health problems and also work in areas such as medically unexplained symptoms.

Clinical work includes urgent assessments, advice and support to clinical areas and follow up.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day.

We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.

Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.


As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.

We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.


Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.


We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network.

Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.

We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

TeamNottsHC


We have a strong focus on working together as a team and on patient and carer satisfaction and the strength of our clinical work is demonstrated by our having achieved Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN) accreditation.


When fully established in this role, key areas of performance will include effective team working skills, effective written and spoken communication, being able to work under pressure to deliver compassionate and person centred care and be able to support the band 6 practitioners to carry out sound risk and mental health assessments.


Essential criteria include a professional qualification and registration (nurse or occupational therapist), appropriate mental health experience and a commitment to reflective practice and learning and development.

We are primarily seeking Full Time applicants, however part time applicants sill be considered.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full information

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