# Senior Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/1cce88ae-0b6e-4bcf-b84c-411a8d2fc284 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner/1cce88ae-0b6e-4bcf-b84c-411a8d2fc284.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (days and night duty) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-03T09:30:59.581Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Farnworth_Bolton/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Urgent_Response_Practitioner_HBTT/Senior_Urgent_Response_Practitioner_HBTT-v8200845 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8200845?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Essential **Essential** - Previous experience of management & working in a supervisory capacity **Desirable** - Experience of working within and leading a MDT ### essential **Essential** - Professional Qualification / Registration with Professional Body **Desirable** - Previous experience of working at band 7 or equivalent experience ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [senior urgent response practitioner (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10506726) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.