Senior Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health practitioner to join the BFT Mental Health Liaison Team at Southmead Hospital. The role involves providing mental health assessment, advice, care, and treatment to patients in the general hospital and emergency department. You will conduct specialist psychosocial assessments, make autonomous clinical decisions, and offer consultation and advice to general hospital colleagues. The team operates a 7-day, age-inclusive, and needs-led service.
Key responsibilities
- Undertake specialist psychosocial assessments and therapeutic interventions, prioritising patients in the Emergency Department.
- Make autonomous decisions based on complex presenting problems, utilising sound clinical judgements for treatment, discharge, and follow-up.
- Provide a Mental Health consultation/Liaison and advice service.
- Assist and support General Hospital Colleagues in making decisions regarding treatment and care in complex situations.
- Work autonomously and/or in close collaboration with colleagues to ensure high-quality evidence-based practice.
Essential criteria
- Evidence of assessment experience community
- Working knowledge of legal frameworks
- Ability to work ambitiously in complex case work
Desirable criteria
- Years experience 4+
- Leadership and compassionate staff management
- Crisis team or equivalent experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to come and work as a mental health liaison practitioner in the large modern state of the art Southmead hospital as part of the Bristol Foundation Trust.
The BFT Mental Health Liaison Team currently provides mental health assessment, advice, care and treatment to patients within the general hospital and emergency department who have a mental health element to their attendance/admission. The team currently operates a 7 day, including nights, age-inclusive and needs led service.
We would like to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Band 7 practitioner to join our team of medical, nursing, and social work staff. We are looking for experienced mental health practitioners with the skills, confidence and flexibility to assess complex individuals and make appropriate plans for their support and care in collaboration with hospital staff.
You will have excellent assessment and communication skills, an ability to formulate clinical decisions and act on them promptly in a demanding, challenging but supportive environment. This is an ideal development opportunity for an experienced practitioner to gain skills in a new and vibrant environment.
Main duties of the job
- Undertake specialist psychosocial assessments and therapeutic
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