Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Are you a dynamic and motivated individual with strong leadership skills?
If so, the Bolton Home Based Treatment Team is seeking to recruit a Senior Urgent Response Practitioner at Band 7 to provide Clinical Leadership working alongside the Team Manager, supporting service delivery and development.
The Home Based Treatment Team
The Home Based Treatment Team is an established service and comprises of a dynamic and welcoming team of psychiatrists, senior practitioners, practitioners, as well as a psychological therapist. The team has senior level input into the local and GM strategic vision for Home Treatment services.
The HBT operates 24/7 to provide responsive mental health care in the community setting, delivered by experienced and established multidisciplinary teams. We aim to provide an alternative to hospital admission and care for service users in the least restrictive way.
As a Trust, we are committed to our services delivering models that are clinically led, operationally partnered, and academically informed.
Role of the Senior Urgent Response Practitioner
The Senior Practitioner will develop close links with the Inpatient Wards to promote HBTT interventions with service users with the view to supporting earlier discharge from the inpatient wards, aiming to reunite service user with their families / carer, whilst also maintaining HBTT support in the community.
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Provide clinical leadership, line management supervision, support, and consultation to HBT practitioners, in line with the clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedure.
Manage and evaluate a caseload in line with the clinical pathway, as outlined within the operational procedure.
This will include:
- Assessment
- Formulation
- & Collaborative care planning
- Therapeutic interventions as required
- Signposting to other relevant agencies and services as part of their recovery
- Working with the service users and their carers as part of their journey through HBT
- Play an active part in service development and innovation as identified by the directorate and through leadership meetings.
- Build and maintain good working relationships with other agencies both in and out of the Bolton area, to ensure the best care delivery for the service user and their carers and/or families.
The post holder will be required to work 37.5 hours a week including shifts, nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
The post holder would be expected to carry a clinical caseload, and support the staff team with managing complex cases, as well as play an active part in the leadership and service development of HBT.
There is an expectation that the post holder will participate in out-of-hours management on call rotas in providing management cover for weekends and statutory holidays.
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About Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford, and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England, and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original, and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment, and dining options.
Wherever you go, you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour, and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills, and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
Name: Jade Moore
Job Title: Operational Manager
Email Address: jade.moore@gmmh.nhs.uk
Telephone Number: 07827901483
Alison Gore
HBTT Team Manager
Email Address: alison.gore@gmmh.nhs.uk
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