Band 6 Primary Care Liaison Practitioner - Wiltshire

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What’s so special about PCLS....?

We asked our staff members to highlight what was so special about our team here are some of the responses.

’We are a friendly mixed team of nurses, psychologists psychiatrists and admin staff.’

We are lucky enough to work in a large spacious office with access to beautiful wildlife and walks in your break’

’Our manager is forward thinking and works hard to implement training opportunities’.

’The job is fast paced and no day is ever the same’

Primary Care Liaison is a specialist mental health assessment service in Wiltshire.

You will join a highly experienced and dedicated team who pride themselves on collaborative working , whilst providing interventions for a range mental health presentations. We cover a large geography with a diverse population as such we are continually adapting our service provision. We take a modern approach to working remotely and recently introduced assessments and interventions via ’Attend Anywhere’.

We invest in all our team members and will support you to develop new skills and training opportunities such as ’brief interventions’, ’Non medical prescribing’ and ’management’

If you hold an appropriate professional registration (i.e. mental health nursing, social work, OT) and would like to experience being part of our dynamic team please apply!

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

For further details / informal visits contact: Mary Hembury mary.hembury@nhs.net /Ana Bozzuto ana.bozzuto@nhs.net 01380 737840

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust)a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, and people living with disabilities – we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

You can submit your application via NHS Jobs and TRAC. Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interviewby email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.