Living Well Mental Health Practitioner - Manchester, United Kingdom - Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are excited to welcome applicants to join our new Living Well teams across the City of Manchester.

Living Well is a new service, co-designed by people with lived experience and key partners, designed to bridge the gap between existing primary and secondary care services.

Working in partnership with GMMH and VCSE organisations it will offer a service which is trauma informed, holistic, person led and community based.

We are committed to doing things differently and trying new things.

Our values for Living Well in Manchester are:

Wholeheartedly Working Together

Really being in the room:
welcoming and appreciating one another; sharing our skills, talents, experience, knowledge, networks and providing constructive feedback

The Desire to Understand

Seeking to listen, encouraging dialogue, being open to diverse voices and perspectives: deliberately going outside of/away from the status quo in search of insight

People & Places

Finding ways to unlock the considerable potential of individuals, communities and organisations across our city to make services and the system better

Opportunistic Bravery

Seizing chances as they arise to try things, learn lessons and generate fresh ideas: we will not let this opportunity slip through our fingers

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you

This advert is for an enthusiastic and motivatedMental Health Practitioner (MH Nurse, MH Social Worker, OT - other professional qualifications considered) who wants to try a new way of working and is dedicated to caring for service users.

There are three roles available - one for each of North, Central and South Manchester. Location preferences will be discussed at interview.

We take flexible working seriously and are keen to have flexible working discussions with any applicant.

We are especially keen to welcome applicants with lived experience to this post.

Selection process

Our selection process will have two parts:

We will be inviting shortlisted applicants to a Getting to Know You Session on Thursday 17th August 2023. This will be part of the formal selection process and will operate as a session to meet with key stakeholders and people with lived experience and to see how applicants fit within our beliefs and values.

Manchester Living Well will initially begin as a prototype (one in each locality) so you need to be prepared to try new things, evaluate and learn as you go along.

See job description and person spec for more details.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 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.

Please see above and attached Person Spec and Job Description.

See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits

Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
Excellent pension
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Wellbeing programme
Blue Light Card Discounts