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

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join our expanding Greater Manchester Reconnect service, in the new role of Senior Practitioner.


The post holder will have excellent communication and person skills and have extensive experience of working with individuals in mental health, learning disability or criminal justice services.


Our Greater Manchester ReConnect Service is commissioned by NHS England and is a care after custody service that seeks to improve the care of people leaving prison by offering our service and support pre-release, and peer led navigation and support in the community post release.


The Greater Manchester ReConnect Service is currently provided in HMP Forest Bank, though is expanding to deliver the service in all 5 Greater Manchester Prisons.


The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team responsible for supporting individuals leaving the prison setting to enhance their health, wellbeing and quality of life, assisting them to connect with and access health services, voluntary sector services and community-based activities and support.


The post holder will work agilely across the GM footprint to:

  • Provide supervision, support and advice to junior staff in the team, in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined within the operational procedures.
Manage and evaluate a caseload in line with relevant pathways as outlined within the operational procedure and will include:

  • Assessment
  • Formulation
  • Signposting
  • Close working with all colleagues
  • To support with complex cases
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) is one of the leading mental health trusts in the UK.
Serving a population of 1.2million people, the Trust employs around 5700 people who make a difference across 130 locations.

Situated in one of the most exciting and affordable cities in Europe, GMMH provides community and inpatient mental health care, alongside substance misuse services across the Northwest.

GMMH is one of the most active research trusts in the UK, with one of the highest levels of recruitment to clinical trials for mental health.

This puts our staff and service users at the leading edge of new mental health treatments.

The Trust provides a range of specialist services including prison in reach across the North of England, a specialist centre for mental health and deafness and in patient perinatal mental health care.

We have been rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Our substance misuse services, and leadership were rated as 'Outstanding'

The ReConnect team routinely operate Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm.


Details of the job description and main responsibilities can be found within the attached 'Person specification and Job description' document.


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
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