Senior Practitioner MHLT

Job overview

The Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner – Senior Lead is a senior clinical leadership role within the Greater Manchester Mental Health Liaison Team, working across acute hospital settings including the Emergency Department and inpatient wards. The post holder will work closely with the MHLT multidisciplinary team and Acute Trust colleagues to assess, treat and safely manage patients presenting with mental health needs, ensuring high‑quality, person‑centred care.

The role promotes best practice in MDT working, huddles, care planning and treatment, supports effective risk management, and enables timely, safe move‑on and discharge planning. The post holder will strengthen integration and pathways between the Emergency Department and wards and work flexibly across both environments in line with service need.

In addition to core liaison responsibilities, the Senior Practitioner will provide leadership in designated specialist areas (such as Later Life, CAMHS or other agreed pathways), acting as a point of expertise and supporting service development, staff guidance and quality improvement.

The post holder will have supervision and PDR responsibilities, support individual and team performance against KPIs, contribute to quality improvement activity, and support governance processes including incident and complaint investigation and learning responses. The role also supports the maintenance of  ongoing service development in line with local and national priorities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide senior clinical leadership within the Mental Health Liaison Team, working across the Emergency Department and inpatient wards to deliver safe, effective and person‑centred mental health assessment, treatment and risk management. They will maintain effective communication with service users, carers, MDT colleagues and partner agencies, and support service management in conjunction with the Team Manager to ensure delivery against operational priorities and KPIs. The role includes responsibility for clinical and social care governance, quality assurance, policy implementation and service improvement, contributing to quality improvement activity, incident and complaint investigation, and learning dissemination. The post holder will support the effective use of financial, staffing and other resources, undertake supervision and PDRs, and contribute to workforce development, education and personal development within the team. They will actively promote service user, carer and stakeholder involvement, uphold safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults, and ensure compliance with health and safety, infection control, confidentiality, equality, diversity and inclusion standards. The role also supports continuous service development.

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)