Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Pennine Care NHS FT; Oldham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Oldham seeks a night worker to join a new team responding to mental health crises in the community. The role involves triaging requests for crisis support and providing safety planning for service users. Strong communication skills and experience in crisis mental health services are essential. The position offers generous leave, flexible working, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Qualifications

• Experience of working in crisis mental health services is required.
• Strong communication skills are essential.
• Familiarity with section 136 procedures is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Triage requests for crisis support.
• Provide safety planning and onward referral for service users.

Skills

Communication Skills

Experience in Crisis Mental Health Services

Experience of 136 Procedures

Job description

Exciting oppurtunity to become part of a newly established team for Pennine Care responding to teams whom have a mental health concern for a service user in the community. The team will triage requests for crisis support and provide safety planning and onward referral for service users referred to the team. Please note this vacancy is a night worker post.

Main duties of the job

applicants please see job description and Person spec for more information about this post (attached)

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job responsibilities

Applicants please see job description and Person spec for more information about this post ( Attached)

Person Specification

Clinical skills

• Communication Skills
• experience of working in Crisis mental health services
• experience of 136 procedures

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.