Senior Practitioner | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

A new opportunity has arisen within the South Manchester HBTT to join the service as a senior practitioner with responsibility for accepting and managing the Primary Care urgent referral caseload.

The post holder will be required to work 37.5 hours a week including weekends, bank holidays and nights. This service operates over 24 hours, 7 days a week, and so there will be times when the post holder will need to work out of hours to facilitate line management and support practitioners. There is an expectation that the post holder will participate in out-of-hours bronze on call - this is subject to approval.

You will be a senior team member providing clinical leadership, leading within our MDT meetings, and on clinical decision making within the service. You will support junior staff through supervision and service development.

• Lead responsibility for overseeing development of the primary care urgent referrals pathway.


• Responsible for triaging referrals from Primary Care partners


• Developing and maintaining relationships and pathways with other services in Trust and with local partnership organisations.


• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to staff in the Home-Based Treatment Team in line with clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedure.


• Providing in-house training and as directed to other services within the directorate


• Manage and evaluate a caseload in line with relevant clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedure and will include:


• Act as an assessor undertaking bio-psychosocial assessments.


• Take responsibility for resource allocation and lead the development of the pathway with other community services.


• Line management and clinical supervision of staff members.


• To participate in the local on call manager rota for GMMH, A new opportunity has arisen within the South Manchester HBTT to join the service as a senior practitioner with responsibility for accepting and managing the Primary Care urgent referral caseload.


The post holder will be required to work 37.5 hours a week including including weekends, and bank holidays. This service operates over 24 hours, 7 days a week, and so there will be times when the post holder will need to work out of hours to facilitate line management and support practitioners. There is an expectation that the post holder will participate in out-of-hours bronze on call - this is subject to approval.

You will be a senior team member providing clinical leadership, leading within our MDT meetings, and on clinical decision making within the service. You will support junior staff through supervision and service development.

Key duties will include:

• Lead responsibility for overseeing development of the primary care urgent referrals pathway.


• Responsible for triaging referrals from Primary Care partners


• Developing and maintaining relationships and pathways with other services in Trust and with local partnership organisations.


• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to staff in the Home-Based Treatment Team in line with clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedure.


• Providing in-house training and as directed to other services within the directorate


• Manage and evaluate a caseload in line with relevant clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedure and will include:


• Act as an assessor undertaking bio-psychosocial assessments.


• Take responsibility for resource allocation and lead the development of the pathway with other community services.


• Line management and clinical supervision of staff members.


• To participate in the local on call manager rota for GMMH
  
  Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 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.


• Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.


• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years


• Excellent pension


• Cycle to work scheme


• Salary sacrifice car scheme


• Wellbeing programme


• Blue Light Card Discounts