Liaison Lead for WEST Talking Therapies in Cannock

Main area Talking Therapies Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Based in Cannock [post holder will be required to work regularly in base as well as some home working]) Job ref 301-VS-26-8327686

Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Talking Therapies Town Cannock Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/11/2026

Liaison Lead for WEST Talking Therapies

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

Are you a dynamic decision maker, able to identify different pathways across a range of services to create tailored journeys for individual patients?

If you have innovative aspirations, this evolving role provides plenty of scope for contributing to the reorganisation of services at a local and Trust level.

The role provides a great deal of autonomy and you will be actively encouraged to network and promote links with a wide range of services.

As part of the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust we offer:

• An annual salary of up to £47,672 (37.5 hours per week) depending on experience
• 35 - 41 days annual leave – including bank holidays(depending on length of service)
• Ongoing career development and training
• NHS Pension Scheme – one of the most comprehensive and generous schemes in the UK
• Wellbeing support, such as access to the MPFT Staff Psychology Service, and additional wellbeing days, along with activities throughout the year
• The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Flexible working opportunities (depending on the role)
• Access to SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
• Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
• NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

Main duties of the job

Good communication skills and an ability to work autonomously are vital to this role as you will be liaising between primary and secondary sectors to facilitate the safe and efficient movement of patients between TT services and Adult Community Mental Health Teams.

The successful candidate will form an integral part of the leadership team across the South Staffordshire Talking Therapies (TT) service. They will be line managed and supervised within TT and will work in the space between TT and secondary care mental health services within MPFT, providing liaison and consultancy for patients who may otherwise fall between services in the West Staffordshire Locality. The team includes CBT therapists, counsellors, IPT practitioners and EMDR practitioners, providing psychological therapies to clients with anxiety and depression, according to NICE guidelines. The successful candidate will also hold a small clinical caseload and will manage duty supervision to the TT team alongside other supervisory responsibilities.

Previous experience working in primary and secondary care and as a clinical supervisor are essential requirements. People with lived experience of mental health issues are encouraged to apply for this post.

The service works core Monday to Friday, 9-5 hours but offers therapy opportunities for patients between the hours of 8am-8pm Tuesday to Thursday. The successful candidates will ideally be prepared to work flexibly to meet service needs within these hours.

Working for our organisation

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Talkin Therapies is a creative organisation which embraces staff ideas to constantly seek ways of taking the service forward to adapt to changing expectations.

We have strong links with academic institutions with staff from the service teaching university courses devised in conjunction with MPFT.

Our staff lead professional development sessions locally and nationally and you will be actively encouraged to develop your practice through internal and external CPD opportunities.

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Talking Therapies is part of the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Make decisions on the suitability of new referrals, identifying the most suitable service for patients
• Formulate, implement and evaluate individual therapy programmes for patients that fall between Primary and Secondary services
• Attend Inter service meetings with regard to referrals
• Liaise with other health and social care staff from a range of agencies with a regard to referrals
• Promote and maintain links with services across the Trust to help co-ordinate provision of an effective Psychological Therapies Service
• Provide specialist advice to other professionals from the Trust and voluntary agencies in regard to our therapeutic service provision
• Contribute to the teaching and training of mental health professionals and other staff working in the service

A detailed job description and personal specification listing necessary qualifications are attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualification from a High Intensity Talking Therapies Course (Post Graduate Diploma)
• Further post graduate qualification training in an approved Talking Therapies psychotherapeutic modality, which meets TT practitioner competencies
• Appropriate Accreditation
• Significant experience working as a psychological therapist and demonstrating the competences as required
• Further qualifications in TT approved therapeutic modalities (e.g. EMDR & MBCT)
• HIT Supervision training

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
• Experience of working in Primary Care Services

Skills

• Computer literate and advanced communication skills
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting

Visa eligibility notice:
The UK Home Office has imposed an emergency brake on specific visa routes.

• Skilled Worker visas cannot currently be issued to Afghan nationals.
• Study visas cannot currently be issued to nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar or Sudan.
  As a result, we are unable to progress applications requiring sponsorship under these routes.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Lizz Burton Job title Personal Assistant to the Clinical Director Email address lizz.burton@mpft.nhs.uk Telephone number 01785301035

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