Senior Mental Health Practitioner in Bolton

Are you a dynamic, motivated mental health professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for delivering high-quality patient care? Bolton Mental Health Liaison Service is seeking to recruit an experienced Senior Practitioner to provide clinical leadership within our well-established and highly regarded service. Working alongside the Team Manager, you will play a key role in supporting service delivery, staff development, and the continued growth of the team.

The Service has been established for over 10 years and consists of a dynamic, supportive, and welcoming multidisciplinary team, including psychiatrists, senior practitioners, practitioners, and a clinical psychologist. The service benefits from senior-level representation within both local and Greater Manchester strategic developments for liaison psychiatry services.

Working in partnership with Royal Bolton Hospital, our practitioners have the unique opportunity to support individuals experiencing both mental and physical health difficulties. This collaborative approach enables staff to develop specialist knowledge and skills across a wide range of clinical specialties while providing expert mental health assessment, intervention, and support within the acute hospital setting.

In addition to direct clinical work, Mental Health Liaison practitioners contribute to the education and development of acute trust staff through teaching, consultation, and collaborative care initiatives.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain a strong clinical presence while developing and enhancing your leadership and management skills.
• Support the Team Manager in ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality service delivery.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to the multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver supervision and professional support to practitioners.
• Support service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Attend and represent the service at meetings in the Team Manager's absence.
• Undertake audits and review clinical processes to support continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the investigation and review of incidents, complaints, and serious events.
• Maintain a clinical caseload and deliver high-quality patient care.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver 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. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to nursing staff and MDT staff in the Bolton Mental Health Liaison Team, in line with relevant clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedures.
• Support the management of the integrated multidisciplinary 24-hour mental health service, providing clinical leadership and patient interventions focusing on relapse prevention, early discharge and improved quality of life for patients referred to the service.
• Support the band 6 practitioners in the assessment of children and adults attending both the paediatric and adult A & E department; with emphasis on knowledge base across the age spectrum.
• Provide a service to the wards, assessing individuals with a range of complex needs, such as organic and functional illness working across the age spectrum including, Children and Young People, working age adults and a range of illnesses associated with people from later life.
• Assess individuals with learning disabilities.
• Provide support and training to the acute hospital staff regarding recognising mental illness and appropriate onward actions to be taken.
• Offer assessment, support and care for individuals brought to Bolton's identified Place of Safety facilities in relation to Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
• Deputise for Team Manager in his/her absence and take on any delegated management duties as required.
• Participate in the Directorate Bronze on call rota.

Person specification

• Professional Qualification / Registration with Professional Body
• Previous experience of working clinically at band 7 or equivalent experience
• Previous experience of Management and working in a supervisory capacity
• Experience of working within and leading a MDT

Important Information about working for GMMH:

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer. The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.

If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.