Mental Health Practitioner
2 weeks ago
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within our Community Health & Justice Services.
We are looking for mental health practitioners within an interest in mental health of people in the criminal justice system. GMMH offers assessment and access to mental health care through the 5 borough-based teams across our footprint.
We are seeking enthusiastic practitioners to join our teams in Salford and Bolton.
We currently have 1 full time contract in Salford & a 30 hour contract in Bolton.
You will work with a multi-agency team delivering individualised care to people who come into or at risk of coming into contact with the criminal justice system.
The post holder/s will carry a caseload within which they will provide assessments, care formulations, clinical risk assessments. Additionally they will liaise with & on behalf of service users to enable timely access to health and social care as well as diversion away from the criminal justice system where appropriate. The post holder/s will be expected to work closely and in collaboration a range of care and criminal justice partners such as, housing officers, police officers/staff, probation officers, GP’s, community health services. This is a permanent contract post for a qualified mental health nurse or allied health professional at Band 6 level.
You would have the support of a Senior Clinical/ Management Team, as well as the skills and experience of a diverse Multi-disciplinary Team within the mental health services.
These posts are offered as a permanent opportunity for an experienced band 6 mental health practitioners to work within the Health and Justice Community Services. The roles will be based at April House in Manchester, St Helena Mill in Bolton, St James’s House in Salford and Stretford Police Station in Trafford. The role will involve the case management of service users in the community with mental health problems or neuro diversity difficulties who find themselves in contact with the criminal justice system.
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.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities - Work closely with a high demand cohort of service users with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
- Provide high quality case management to service users with complex needs.
- Receive referrals and actively engage person/s in a dedicated time frame.
- Be able work in an assertive outreach based model.
- To participate in the development of service policy and procedures as well as ensuring that all policies and procedures are implemented and adhered to.
- Support the evaluation of practice and other aspects of service provision and implementing appropriate measures for improvement.
- Responsible for providing line management and clinical and managerial supervision to junior team members.
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of support for service users.
- Be able to use GMMH systems of recording and communication.
- Refer individuals into services where a need has been identified and there is a service to support.
- To maintain clear lines of communication between services, with particular regard to risk assessment and risk management.
- Contribute to the development of standard operating procedures for the service.
- Be comfortable working and dealing with users and enquiries in a health and justice setting.
- Support service users to attend and engage in services which seek to reduce criminal behaviour.
- Triage using evidenced based assessments, care plans which are recorded and monitored for progress to move service users through the systems.
- Sign post and advise both service users and professionals of all the commissioned serves available in Manchester.
- Support service users to participate in positive diversionary activities and seek employment.
General Duties/Responsibilities - Directly engage with individuals who are presenting with mental health problems and support the development of a multi-agency plan of care and/or intervention.
- Provide brokerage with local service providers to enable a joined
-
Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
2 weeks ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeAn exciting opportunity has become available for Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners to work within the Mental Health Liaison Team based at North Manchester Hospital Site. The Mental Health Liaison Team offer a comprehensive range of Mental Health assessment and brief interventions within one Multi-Disciplinary Team. We are looking for staff with experience...
-
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health Full timeJob overview Manchester Case Management Team Manchester Case Management (MCM) is a multi agency service with locality teams across the city which proactively supports people identified as at high risk of hospital admission as a result of long term physical health conditions. The service brings together the skills and experience of GPs, Nurses,...
-
Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
7 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeAre you an experienced Band 5 Nurse looking for the next step in your career or a current Band 6 looking for a fresh challenge as Mental Health Liaison opportunity in Central Manchester. We have an opportunity for you to be part of fast growing and developing services. In line with the Five Year Forward Plan for Mental Health and an exciting transformation...
-
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
2 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeManchester Case Management Team Manchester Case Management (MCM) is a multi skilled service established across the City which proactively supports people identified as at high risk of hospital admission. The service brings together the skills and experience of GPs, Nurses, Mental Health Practitioners, Social Workers, Pharmacists and Wellbeing Advisers to...
-
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
6 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeManchester Case Management Team Manchester Case Management (MCM) is a multi agency service with locality teams across the city which proactively supports people identified as at high risk of hospital admission as a result of long term physical health conditions. The service brings together the skills and experience of GPs, Nurses, Mental Health...
-
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT Full timeJob summary Manchester Case Management Team Manchester Case Management (MCM) is a multi agency service with locality teams across the city which proactively supports people identified as at high risk of hospital admission as a result of long term physical health conditions. The service brings together the skills and experience of GPs, Nurses,...
-
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
7 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeAn exciting opportunity has arisen in the GM Universities Student Mental Health Service for a Senior Mental Health Nurse /Senior Mental Health Practitioner posts for 12 months as a secondment or fixed term post. The service receives referrals from the Five Greater Manchester Universities counselling and wellbeing services. The aim of the service is to...
-
Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
2 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeWe are looking for enthusiastic, ‘can do’, and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds to join our Multi-Disciplinary Team. We are keen to recruit Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers to join our service. An AMHP qualification or a willingness to work towards this qualification is particularly...
-
Night Time Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
45 minutes ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeWe are looking for enthusiastic, 'can do', and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds to join our Multi-Disciplinary Team. We are keen to recruit Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers to join our service. An AMHP qualification or a willingness to work towards this qualification is particularly...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
3 minutes ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeThe post holder will be supported by well-established, specialist multi-disciplinary, trauma informed homeless teams and will work with individuals who are experiencing mental health and substance misuse problems. The role of the team is to work with a range of partnership services and homeless individuals to assess and identify the appropriate treatment...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
5 minutes ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeThe post holder will be supported by well-established, specialist multi-disciplinary, trauma informed homeless teams and will work with individuals who are experiencing mental health and substance misuse problems. The role of the team is to work with a range of partnership services and homeless individuals to assess and identify the appropriate treatment...
-
Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
44 minutes ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeA new opportunity has arisen within the Forensic CAMHS North West service. The FCAMHS initiative aims to improve the outcomes for children where there are concerns about their mental health and development and their potential risk to others. The post holder will be expected to be primarily within the F CAMHS NW team, based at the GMMH Prestwich site. The...
-
Night Time Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
56 minutes ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT Full timeTo provide in-reach into the A&E department and general acute wards providing comprehensive assessments to plan and identify the mental health needs for patients referred to the service and to follow up. To have an understanding physical health conditions and impact they can have on mental health. To be able to engage and establish an empathic rapport with...
-
Community Mental Health Practitioner
19 minutes ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeWe are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Community Psychiatric Nurse to join Central East Manchester CMHT, a friendly and supported, well performing CMHT. Community Mental Health Services are a committed integrated service that strive to provide quality recovery based support to people with severe and enduring mental health related difficulties. As a...
-
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
Found in: Talent UK C2 - 1 week ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health Full timeJob overview Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist ( in Pelvic Pain plus supporting specialist pain assessment work) Band 7 preceptorship available This new role will be embedded within the pelvic pain specialism at Wythenshawe Hospital focusing on working alongside pelvic pain specialists to help develop appropriate interventions for those...
-
Manchester, United Kingdom WhereToTalk Full timeMental Health Practitioner Required (Thriving Families): Manchester Mental Health Practitioner Required (Thriving Families): Manchester Contract: Base: Combination of Etrop Court (Wythenshawe) and Zion Community Centre (Hulme). Our purpose is to create space where mental health comes first. This role will work collaboratively within Manchester City...
-
Principal Practitioner Psychologist
Found in: Talent UK C2 - 1 week ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health Full timeJob overview Band 8B Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Pain This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner psychologist to work in partnership with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) to contribute at a senior level (alongside another 8B colleague) to the ongoing delivery of high quality, psychologically informed...
-
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
Found in: Talent UK C2 - 1 week ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT Full timeJob summary Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist ( in Pelvic Pain plus supporting specialist pain assessment work) Band 7 preceptorship available This new role will be embedded within the pelvic pain specialism at Wythenshawe Hospital focusing on working alongside pelvic pain specialists to help develop appropriate interventions for those...
-
Mental Health Practitioner
1 week ago
Manchester, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full timeAn opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists to join the North Home-Based Treatment Team. This dynamic and driven multi-disciplinary team offer an alternative to psychiatric hospital admission, supporting service users in acute mental health crisis in their homes, as well as supporting...
-
Mental Health Practitioner Required
2 weeks ago
Manchester, United Kingdom WhereToTalk Full timeMental Health Practitioner Required (Thriving Families): Manchester Mental Health Practitioner Required (Thriving Families): Manchester Contract: Initially for 12 months (extension possible dependent upon funding) Hours: 35 hours per week Base: Combination of Etrop Court (Wythenshawe) and Zion Community Centre (Hulme). Our purpose is to create space...