Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Are you a dynamic and motivated individual with strong leadership skills? If so the Bolton Home Based Treatment Team is seeking to recruit a Senior Urgent Response Practitioner at Band 7 to provide Clinical Leadership working alongside the Team Manager supporting service delivery and development.

The Home Based Treatment Team is an established service and comprises of a dynamic and welcoming team of psychiatrists, senior practitioners, practitioners as well as a psychological therapist. The team has senior level input into the local and GM strategic vision for Home Treatment services.

The HBT operates 24/7 to provide responsive mental health care in the community setting, delivered by experienced and established multidisciplinary teams. We aim to provide an alternate to hospital admission and care for service users in the least restrictive way.

As a Trust, we are committed to our services delivering models that are clinically led, operationally partnered and academically informed.

The Senior Practitioner will develop close links with the Inpatient Wards to promote HBTT interventions with service users with the view to supporting earlier discharge from the inpatient wards aiming to reunite service user with their families / carer whilst also maintaining HBTT support in the community.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical leadership, line management supervision, support and consultation to HBT practitioners, in line with the clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedure.

Manage and evaluate a caseload in line with the clinical pathway, as outlined within the operational procedure.

This will include: - - Assessment - Formulation - & Collaborative care planning as

• Therapeutic interventions as required
• Signposting to other relevant agencies and services as part of their recovery
• Working with the service users and their carers as part of their journey through HBT
• Play an active part in service development and innovation as identified by the directorate and through leadership meetings.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with other agencies both in and out of the Bolton area, to ensure the best care delivery for the service user and their carers and/or families.

The post holder will be required to work 37.5 hours a week including shifts, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

The post holder would be expected to carry a clinical caseload, and support the staff team with managing complex cases, as well as play an active part in the leadership and service development of HBT.

There is an expectation that the post holder will participate in out-of-hours management on call rotas in providing management cover for weekends and statutory holidays.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• 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)

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.