Living Well Hub Practitioner

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS foundation trust is seeking a senior mental health practitioner to join the Stockport Living Well service, which aims to provide seamless mental health support. The role includes conducting health assessments, coordinating patient care, and offering guidance to junior team members. Candidates must demonstrate strong assessment and collaboration skills, ensuring high-quality service delivery in line with NHS policies and legislation.

Qualifications

• Registered mental health professional with experience in assessments.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in providing guidance to junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of health and social care needs.
• Coordinate assessment clinics and prioritize appointments.
• Identify management plans and fast-track patients to specialist services.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Collaboration

Leadership

Job description

The Stockport Living Well service provides a single point of entry and first level gate keeping into mental health services in Stockport. We are working towards a Living well model, brining together different professionals and services including Voluntary sector to work collaboratively and offer support to our patients. As part of the service, we screen and triage all referrals into the service, undertake mental health assessments and care planning and onward referral to the most appropriate service.

You will undertake comprehensive assessments of the health and social care needs of individuals who are referred to the service, in addition to comprehensive risk assessments. You will also coordinate assessment clinics and prioritise appointments. No one day is the same and you will need a flexible, creative and supportive approach within the team including working collaboratively with the MDT as well as other services and teams.

Following assessment you will be responsible for identifying appropriate management plans, follow up care, referrals and fast tracking of patients into specialist services.

As a senior mental health practitioner you will offer support and guidance to junior members of staff on the team.

The Team operates from Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

The Access Team works closely with Healthy Minds, The Transition Team and other internal and external providers; such as the Stockport Prevention Alliance, Open Door and the Safe Haven.

Staff are expected to participate in the overall development of the service, ensuring that the principles of Clinical Governance underpin all developments.

It is expected that you will deliver care in accordance with all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures, the Mental Health Act and community care legislation.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rose Dunn Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 716 4816