Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

This position is an exciting innovative post that will provide mental health support to Primary Care Networks in Liverpool.

You will primarily work in primary care but also work across the interface between Primary Care and Mental Health Services to provide advice, support and assessment to the Local Primary Care Teams, Service Users and Carers.

The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs who would otherwise have seen a GP and the post holder will see new presentations of primary care mental health problems.

Please note, the job description notes the post as Mid Mersey / Knowsley, however the current post is for the Liverpool area.

The focus will be providing continuous assessment and treatment to people with mental health difficulties within the GP surgery's. Future ambition is this will include recovery co‑ordination and care management functions.

Experience in providing evidence‑based therapeutic psychological interventions will be advantageous.

As more posts become available with additional funding then the posts will also include the provision of treatment, education and problem‑solving approaches. The post holder will be an effective member of a multi‑disciplinary team, a main component being liaison with statutory and non‑statutory organisations.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

14 January 2026

Agenda for change

Band 6

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Permanent

Full‑time, Flexible working

350‑MHC
7707906

Primary Care and Mental Health Services

Liverpool

L13 4AW

Clinical

• To provide a safe and effective day to day operation of the service, including the handling of clinical enquiries.
• The role holder may be required to undertake telephone triage screening assessments in order to assess the level of risk/priority with that patient, so they can be treated, signposted, or referred on to agencies as appropriate.
• To undertake assessments of individual clients difficulties, establishing risk and determining the appropriate course of action taking into consideration all possible options. The relationship should adopt a partnership approach, engaging service users in the positive management of their health and wellbeing.
• Work with patients in order to support adherence to prescribed treatments, monitoring mental health medication, taking into consideration interactions with physical needs.
• To maintain an individual case hold providing short term interventions and support, under the guidance of the GP and ensure that the caseload is well managed, and care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards.
• Provide and receive information, some of which may be contentious, sensitive, and complex to and from individuals and their families/carers and actively support as appropriate.
• To collate and organise contemporaneous information about opportunities and resources in the local area which may be of benefit to clients referred to the service (e.g. voluntary and community…