Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 327-25-919
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beacon House
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
The Mental Health Liaison Services at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner.
You will work in partnership with patients in the Community Hospital setting as they complete their hospital treatment; providing practical, emotional and signposting support as well as acting as a patient advocate if requested. You will work alongside Community Hospital colleagues to improve patient experience, care and wellbeing.
We will work with you to ensure that we support your personal and developmental needs, this includes a bespoke induction to ensure that you are fully prepared and supported in delivering this role.
Our aim is to work closely with our Community Hospital colleagues to deliver a pro-active, patient focussed service that delivers the right care at the right time and your work will ensure that the voice of the patient is fully recognised.
If you have excellent interpersonal skills, the desire to deliver high quality care and you are ready to use your experience to support others then please get in touch to talk through the role.
Main duties of the job
- Offer a visible, accessible presence within community hospitals in the provision of an assessment service to inpatients presenting with a broad range of mental health and psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses. The nature of the role will also include the need for specialist assessments, treatments and interventions to older people with complex needs or enduring mental health issues.
- Deliver innovative and inspiring mental health training to support Gloucestershire Care Service priorities that enable the health and social care workforce and other priority groups to deliver high quality mental health services.
- Providing a mental health consultation, liaison and advice service throughout the hospital wards
- Delivering a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions to individual patients who have or who are suspected to have a mental health issues.
- Assisting and supporting community hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
- Providing formal and informal clinical supervision to registered and unregistered staff
- To be a positive role model that promotes social inclusion and equitable mental and physical health for people living with mental health issues and their carers.
- 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
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Knowledge of key areas of mental health liaison work and the core skills required
· Extensive knowledge of a variety of approaches to assessment of mental health and associated treatments
· A conceptual understanding of the principles of recovery and social inclusion with the ability to apply to Clinical practice
· Excellent skills in relation to assessment and treatment and clinical management
· Knowledge of the clinical and demographic risk factors associated with suicide and self-harm
· Comprehensive knowledge of the MHA and Mental Capacity Act
· Effective resource management skills.
· Ability to analyse information
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s 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
Person specification
clinical
Essential criteria
- Assisting and supporting community hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations
- Work effectively with service users, formal and informal carers involving them in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of training and education activities.
- Significant proven post qualifying experience of working with individuals with severe and enduring mental illness
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with a wide range of mental health conditions; including (not exhaustively) depression, delirium, dementia and self-harm
- Experience of working with older people in a clinical setting
- Experience of working in a general hospital setting
professional
Essential criteria
- A conceptual understanding of the principles of recovery and social inclusion with the ability to apply to Clinical practice
- Experience of working with and training/presenting to people from a variety of professional backgrounds.
- Knowledge of key areas of mental health liaison work and the core skills required
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of the MHA and Mental Capacity Act
- Excellent skills in relation to assessment and treatment and clinical management
professional
Essential criteria
- Experience of offering advice and guidance across organisational & professional boundaries.
- Excellent skills in relation to assessment and treatment and clinical management
- Knowledge of key areas of mental health liaison work and the core skills required
Desirable criteria
- Ability to prioritise work load and manage resources effectively
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jim Welch
- Job title
- Clinical and Operational Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 5490
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