Job summary

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Band 6 Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to join the Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service (ALPS) on a 12-month fixed-term basis.

You will be an active member of a skilled and experienced liaison mental health team, delivering timely and compassionate assessments and supporting appropriate onward care for service users presenting with mental health needs at our Bradford Hospital.

ALPS is an all-age service, therefore experience of working with children and young people, as well as older adults experiencing a mental health crisis, would be desirable.

The successful applicant will be a motivated and confident practitioner who can work effectively within a general hospital environment, respecting different professional approaches while promoting mental health awareness and collaborative working.

Strong partnership working is essential, including with the voluntary care sector, local authority, blue light services, service users and their families.

Key areas of focus include trauma-informed care, ensuring older adults receive an equitable service, developing safe and inclusive pathways for intoxicated service users, recognising increased risks for perinatal service users, and linking with appropriate services to help address the impact of social deprivation.

Closing Date: 21 November 2026Shortlisting Date: 23 November 2026Interview Date: w/c 30 November 2026

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of nursing care for service users within the Acute Community Services in Bradford.

Mental Health Practitioners working within the Acute Community Service provide clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning to service users presenting in the Accident and Emergency Departments who are in mental health crisis.

Working within the community, Mental Health Practitioners provide a range of face-to-face brief solution focused interventions empowering service users, carers and their families in decision making and signpost to a range of health and social care resources for support.

There is the opportunity for placements within the Acute Community Services which includes Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service, Intensive Home Treatment and First Response Service. But this role is specific to our Acute Liaison Psychiatry Service, which are based the local General Hospitals.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 4500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible.