Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Practitioner (GP+) 22.5h/wk
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Are you a skilled mental health Nurse?
Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?
We have a vacancy for a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner based in South West Hertfordshire (Watford).
Join us in continuing to deliver our effective primary care mental health services!
This role is in line with the 10 Year Plan for Mental Health and recognises that by placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices, promoting recovery focused early assessment and treatment will help the service user achieve the best outcomes.
You will join a team of Band 6 mental health practitioners who are based within the primary care setting. They will be supported by Band 7 ARRS workers and the Service Manager/Clinical Matron.
Please contact Ben Mahoney (07908 800 269) for an informal chat or to arrange a visit. We look forward to hearing from you!
The successful candidate will
- be a qualified mental health nurse
- provide assessments and brief interventions
- be prepared to work in-person and remotely
- work alongside various professional groups including GPs, other primary care professionals and wider community agencies
- have knowledge and experience of working with individuals with mental health needs
- undertake assessments of individuals and their families within primary care including the assessment of risk in order to consider access or re-access to secondary mental health services
- be a core member of primary care teams within a defined area, using specialist mental health knowledge
- develop links and foster a culture of partnership between Primary Care Teams and HPFT Adult Mental Health Services.
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In Return, We Can Offer You
- leadership and management training
- 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (maximum £2,011 per annum pro rata)
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
- One of the UK's best pension schemes
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
- Employee Assistance Programme
Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
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Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values Are
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ben Mahoney
- Job title: Clinical Matron
- Email address: benjamin.mahoney@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07908 800 269
For an informal discussion please contact Ben Mahoney
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