Senior Mental Health Practitioner/ Team Manager

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join their innovative team. This role focuses on providing support and therapeutic interventions to children and young people in crisis, ensuring they receive timely and appropriate care. The successful candidate will work collaboratively within a dedicated team, leading initiatives that improve mental health outcomes for young individuals. With a commitment to high-quality service delivery, this organization offers a supportive environment for professional growth and development, making it an exciting opportunity for those looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health care.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Health and Wellbeing activities

Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Qualifications

• Core professional registration in Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy required.
• Experience in managing complex cases and conducting risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior mental health practitioners while providing clinical support.
• Deliver community-based assessments and therapeutic interventions.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Crisis Management

Risk Assessment

Therapeutic Interventions

Team Leadership

Organizational Skills

Education

Core Professional Qualification in Mental Health or Social Care

Masters Level Education or Equivalent Experience

Job description

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NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area: Nurse, social worker or occupational therapist working as a senior mental health practitioner role.
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekends and unsociable hours working shifts to cover 7 days service operational 8am-10pm)
Job ref: 311-HYM641-25-B

Site: Heathfield house, Stockport or Southlink Block 4, Oldham Town Stockport or Oldham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (enhancements for unsocial hours and weekends available)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/03/2025 23:59

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople.

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner with a core professional registration (Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy) to work within an exciting new service development within Pennine Care. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries to ensure that young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place in order to improve their outcomes and the families/carers experience of mental health support.

This is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to work as a Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner offering assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeutic intervention where appropriate to young people who require crisis support within our Children and Young People Crisis Team which includes Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Paediatric assessment pathways within the Pennine Care footprint.

Main duties of the job

You will work alongside the other senior mental health practitioners in the team to be in a team leader role whilst also working clinically within the team including the duty role. Please see the attached Job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

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 #PennineCarePeople and 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Overview and not an extensive list. Please see full JD/PS attached.

Staffing / Management
• To attend and chair team, clinical, business and other meetings as required.
• Presenting findings and service evaluation at conferences and elsewhere in relation to the crisis care pathway.
• Management of staff.
• To ensure that safe and effective pathways are in place to facilitate the movement of CYP through services, including the identification and reporting of deficits within service provision.
• Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage stakeholders within all sectors, working on a variety of topics.
• Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms.

Clinical and Professional
• Deliver community-based assessment, de-escalation and therapeutic interventions (including risk reduction interventions) when children and young people are presenting in crisis or require enhanced support in the community.
• Deliver hospital-based assessments and interventions where a young person has been admitted to a paediatric ward to try and facilitate discharge with appropriate community care and support.
• Work with young people to offer Early Supported Discharge from hospital-based settings including specialist inpatient mental health settings.
• Support families to offer containment and care during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis.
• Work intensively with CYP and those who care for them under a variety of different crisis pathways and lengths of intervention under supervision of qualified mental health professionals.
• Provide, or provide access to, a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with CYP assessed needs.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Relevant Core Professional qualification in mental health or social care plus evidence of continued professional development in a CAMHS related area.
• Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Evidence of professional registration and continued professional development.
• Training in one or more additional specialist areas of practice including children and young people.

Experience

• Experience of working as a senior clinician in clinical settings which meet the core competencies of the post.
• Substantial experience of risk assessment and risk management.
• Experience of managing complex cases within a mental health or social care service.
• An extensive range of clinical experience within the specialty or within a care pathway.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ care and treatment.
• Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life span and presenting with the full range of severity.
• Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate the impact of their clinical practice.
• Experience of children and young people’s inpatient mental health care.
• Skills in service evaluations and service relevant research.

Knowledge

• High level of working knowledge of the policy guidance and legislation.
• Knowledge of crisis and risk management procedures.
• Thorough knowledge of risk assessment and risk reduction strategies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health, including the Mental Health Act and issues of capacity and consent.
• Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures and responsibilities.
• Sound knowledge of family interventions to boost resilience and improve.
• Knowledge in the practice of specialist therapies in Children and Young People within a stepped model of care.
• Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP crisis services.
• An understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling good working relationships with others across professional boundaries.
• Able to provide and receive highly complex sensitive information and negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult issues. Ability to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of conflicting priorities and agendas.
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
• Willingness to work flexibly including non-social hours.
• Substantial experience delivering focused evidence based interventions such as CBT, Problem Solving, Family Interventions and Parenting.
• Belief in the child centred, needs led, recovery focused values base of the service.
• Willingness to participate in duty and on call rotas.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification.
• Right to work check.
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role).
• Professional registration and/or qualification check.
• Occupational health assessment.
• Employment history and reference validation.

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will be used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offered a position with us and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offered is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider the brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
• Unfortunately, we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure your application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Abigail Louise Ribchester
Job title: Operational Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07517466101

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
Telephone: [phone]