Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradley Stoke; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust advertises a Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to join the 24/7 team in Gloucester A&E. The role focuses on rapid mental health assessment, liaison across hospital departments, and short-term interventions for patients in distress, self-harm, or illness.

The post involves day and night shifts with a need for strong interpersonal skills, professional development, and collaboration with acute hospital colleagues to ensure timely,

Qualifications

• Relevant professional health or care qualification (MHSW, SROT, RMHN, RNLD).
• Experience in providing mental health assessments and liaison in hospital settings.

Responsibilities

• Offer an assessment service to patients in the emergency department with mental health needs.
• Provide a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service across departments.
• Deliver psychosocial interventions to patients who have self-harmed.
• Support hospital colleagues in complex decision-making for treatment and care.
• Provide education and clinical supervision to staff; participate in service development.

Skills

Self-harm assessments

Mental health liaison

Education & supervision

Interpersonal skills

IT systems (including EPR)

Education

Mental health professional qualification

Tools

EPR systems

Job description

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

The closing date is 15 November 2026

This role is offered on a permanent basis . The hours are full-time, Nights.

As the successful applicant you will join our dedicated 24/7 team based in Gloucester A&E Department. You will participate in the provision of a responsive, needs-led mental health assessment and short-term intervention service to people presenting to the General Hospital experiencing mental distress, mental illness and/or self harm.

This role is a role that would have an expectation of working a mixture of days and nights, the frequency of these can be discussed at interview.

We will work with you to ensure that we support your professional and developmental needs, this includes a personalised induction to ensure that you are fully prepared and supported in delivering this service.

Our aim is to work closely with our Acute Hospital colleagues to deliver a pro-active, patient focused service that delivers the right care at the right time and our co-streaming innovation ensures that patients don't have to wait for their mental health care.

If you have excellent interpersonal skills, the desire to deliver high quality care and you want to develop as a professional then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Offer an assessment service to patients presenting at the emergency departments with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses
• Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the departments
• Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients who have predominantly self-harmed
• Assisting and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
• Providing formal and informal education and clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
• Representing mental health services within the Hospitals Trust.
• Providing a communication structure between secondary mental health services, primary care and non-statutory services, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.

76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.

81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit -https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application

Person Specification

Clinical Experience

• Professional Health or Care Qualification (MHSW, SROT, RMHN, RNLD)
• Demonstrate clinical expertise in undertaking Self Harm assessments of adults and young people and/or adults. Demonstrate extensive experience of providing consultation/ training and advice to partner agencies
• Proven knowledge and experience of providing effective therapeutic evidence based interventions for individuals following episodes of self -harm
• Comprehensive knowledge of the MHA and Mental Capacity Act
• Recognised qualification in a specific model of therapy e.g. family therapy, CBT etc.
• Significant proven post qualifying experience of working with adults and young people who may present with both physical and mental health needs.
• Experience of working in a general hospital setting

Professional

• Demonstrate experience in developing/providing and evaluating professional development and education to a diverse workforce
• Demonstrate experience in working and supporting colleagues through the processes of change
• Demonstrate experience in the mentorship of students
• Ability to participate in service development processes at a strategic level
• Demonstrate experience and ability in the use of IT systems (including EPR)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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