Living Well Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

We are excited to welcome applicants for a secondment with our Manchester Living Well team.

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

• The Desire to UnderstandSeeking 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 & PlacesFinding ways to unlock the considerable potential of individuals, communities and organisations across our city to make services and the system better

• Opportunistic BraverySeizing 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!

Main duties of the job

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

We take flexible working seriously and are keen to discuss this with any applicant.

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

Manchester Living Well initially began as a prototype (one in each locality of Manchester.) The service constantly evolves and adapts, 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements:

• 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
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)