Job vacancy: Mental Health Liaison Practitioner, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Fenland locality

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Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Band 7

Main area: Adult & Specialist Mental Health
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 310-ASMH-2862702

Site: Agenoria House
Town: Fenland locality
Salary: £38,890 - £44,503 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2021 23:59

CPFT has been in the forefront of changes in the way mental health care is delivered across Primary and Secondary Care Adult Community Mental Health. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of shaping the way forward and influencing how things develop now and in the future.

We are excited to be able to offer the following opportunity to apply for a senior role within the Primary Care Mental Health Service (PCMHS)

Band 7 Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - Fenland

The ideal candidate have excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships across primary care, secondary care and 3^rd sector organisations. The MHLP will lead a small team across surgeries ensuring delivery of advice, request of service, assessment and signposting. In due course, we hope the service will be able to deliver short interventions and you will be part of developing this part of the service. Having strong team work ethic, accountability, accompanied by an ability to work autonomously with a desire for innovation.

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.

As PCMHS develops this will enable Secondary Community Mental Health Locality Teams to review their caseloads, focus on those people with the highest need and deliver effective MDT interventions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being.

To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with mental health needs then we want to hear from you.

The post holder will work with GP surgeries within the area, alongside the other Primary care Mental Health Practitioners and the Fenland Adult Locality Team (FALT).

Please do make contact with us if you would like to discuss any of the above in further detail, or talk about the role, we would be pleased to hear from you. We would also welcome an informal visit.

We encourage those candidates from out of area and can offer relocation expenses for those wishing to apply, and we are also able to offer temporary accommodation to help those relocate.

Other benefits of working for CPFT include:

Annual leave allowance 27 days plus bank holidays (this may increase depending on NHS service)

Pension scheme
Flexible job share opportunities
Salary sacrifice schemes
Staff discount schemes
Professional development via the CPFT Academy which provides in-house training programmes
Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
Stress awareness training
Mindfulness training
Counselling service

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
Children and young people’s mental health services;
Children’s community services in Peterborough;
Social care;
Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our BAME and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please email edi@cpft.nhs.uk.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around their personal circumstances.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate) and references to cover 3 years of continuous employment. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Face-to-Face interviews are currently not permitted due to COVID-19, therefore they will be conducted via Microsoft Teams.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.