Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the North West is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner for their Warrington and Halton Core 24 service. This role involves providing high-quality, evidence-based care to service users in crisis, participating in a multidisciplinary team, and acting as a mentor. The position offers flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Experienced practitioner with extensive mental health service experience.
• Ability to provide high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Qualified to act as a mentor for students.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care within inpatient and community settings.
• Act as a named nurse/care coordinator, undertaking assessments.
• Supervise care for service users with complex needs.

Skills

Mental Health Service Experience

Evidence-Based Care

Socially Inclusive Practices

Multidisciplinary Team Participation

Clinical Decision Making

Education

Mentorship Qualification

Job description

Warrington and Halton Core 24 Mental Health Practitioner

Warrington and Halton Core 24 is a specialist assessment service for service users in mental health crisis, including those referred from emergency departments and acute hospital wards. The service focuses on assessment, formulation of treatment and risk management plans, with appropriate triage and diversion from the service.

The service operates on a shift system, including long and short days (currently under review), with nights to provide a 24/7, 365-day service. Recent organisational changes have increased flexibility across the Urgent Care footprint, supporting Mersey Care's additional Core 24 services in Mersey, including Royal Liverpool, Warrington, Whiston, and Southport, where required.

Candidate Requirements

• Experienced practitioner with extensive mental health service experience, including organic services.
• Ability to provide high-quality, evidence-based care within the division for service users and carers in inpatient and community settings.
• Commitment to socially inclusive practices and the recovery model.
• Capability to act as a named nurse/care coordinator, undertaking assessments, planning, evaluation, and review of care within a recovery-focused model.
• Active participation as a multidisciplinary team member.
• Provide advice, expertise, and leadership within the team.
• Supervise care for service users with complex and high-risk needs.
• Work autonomously, making clinically appropriate decisions based on received information and team knowledge.
• Qualified to act as a mentor for students.

About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people across the region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services supporting physical health, mental health, learning disabilities, addiction, and brain injury. We are one of only three UK trusts offering high secure mental health facilities.

Our commitment is to ‘perfect care’—safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support staff development and work alongside service users, families, and carers to co-design future services. We are currently implementing organisational and service transformations to improve quality and reduce costs.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details or informal visits, contact:
Name: Andrea Northey
Job Title: Team Manager
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]