Senior Practitioner for High Intensity Users (MHLT)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner to join the team in a newly created role, leading on work with patients identified as being intensive users of the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care services. The successful candidate will work as part of the MHLS leadership team and be an experienced, driven, and passionate individual, able to work collaboratively with both patients and wider agencies, to ensure that people are able to access the right care to meet their individual needs, thus reducing a reliance on ED attendances. The successful candidate will have a proven track record demonstrating comprehensive assessment, risk formulation and care planning, working with individual's presenting with complex needs.,

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support, and consultation to nursing staff and MDT staff in the MHLS team, in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined within the operational procedures.
• Support patients who are high intensity users of urgent care services through developing excellent links with the acute hospital Trust and wider agencies, ensuring a strong multi-agency approach to care planning that recognises the often complex physical and mental health needs of this patient group.
• Take a lead clinical role in the completion of highly developed assessments, risk management, interventions and onward care planning of patients identified as intensive users of the ED.
• Recognise the importance of individualised care planning and, wherever possible, work collaboratively with patients, families & carers to identify and plan ongoing care needs.
• Develop robust systems to effectively monitor and evaluate the impact of work completed, using both qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Work as part of the wider MHLS, offering biopsychosocial assessment, risk management, brief intervention and care/discharge planning, to a wide range of patient groups, across the hospital footprint.
  
  Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over7000members of staff, who deliver services from more than160locations.
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.