Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Practitioner; GP

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The closing date is 08 February 2026

Are you a skilled mental health practitioner?

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 GP Plus Practitioner covering GP surgeries in Hoddesdon & Broxbourne.

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 with relevant professional qualifications (nursing, social work, OT) who are based within the primary care setting. They will be supported by Band 7 ARRS workers and the Service Manager/Clinical Matron.

The successful candidate will

• provide assessments and brief interventions
• 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.

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training
• 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  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.

Our family of over 4,000 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.

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:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

• To enable other practitioners in Primary Care to develop their skills and confidence in assessment and treatment of particular mental health problems.
• Facilitate joint work between Primary Care and Secondary Care interface and Primary Care/Voluntary Sector to increase range of services/interventions available.
• To develop a close relationship with Primary Care practices, attending practice meetings and having regular informal contact.
• Interventions will be delivered under Primary care governance and policies whilst also maintaining adherence to HPFT Trust policy.

For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to…