Senior Practitioner MHLT

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider in Manchester seeks a Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner to assess and manage patients, support team performance, and ensure quality governance. This role involves close collaboration with the MDT and supports improving patient care processes. The ideal candidate has experience in mental health settings and strong interpersonal skills. Opportunities for professional development are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care settings.
• Ability to manage and treat patients effectively.
• Strong communication skills to develop relationships.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat, and manage patients on the wards.
• Support timely patient transitions between departments.
• Investigate complaints and incidents for governance.

Skills

Patient assessment

Care management

Supervision

Quality improvement

Governance processes

Job description

Overview

Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - Ward Senior Lead. This role works closely with the MHLT MDT and Acute Trust to assess, treat and safely manage patients on the wards at the MRI, ensuring best practice for MDTs and huddles, care and treatment, and supporting timely move on. The post holder will support building closer relationships between the ED and Wards and will be required to work across both at times. They will have supervision and PDR responsibilities, work on QI within the team, support governance processes by investigating complaints, incidents and delivering learning responses. They will support team performance of KPI's and individual supervisee performance as required. They will support maintaining the MHLT PLAN Accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat and safely manage patients on the wards at the MRI, ensuring best practice for MDTs and Huddles.
• Support timely move on and develop closer relationships between the ED and Wards; work across both areas when required.
• Provide supervision and PDR responsibilities; contribute to quality improvement (QI) within the team.
• Support governance processes by investigating complaints and incidents and delivering learning responses.
• Support team performance of KPIs and supervisee performance as required.
• Support the maintaining of the MHLT PLAN Accreditation.

About Us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, delivering services from more than 122 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. 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.