Senior Practitioner for High Intensity Users (MHLT) inSalford inSalford PUBLISHED 26 DEC 2023

Band 7: £46,148 to £52,809 a year Per annum  PERMANENT 
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner to join the team in a newly created role, leading on work with patients identified as being intensive users of the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care services.


Please see attached job description and person specification


Staff benefits

  • Pay Enhancements:


Band


Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am


All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)

1

Time plus 47%

Time plus 94%

2

Time plus 41%

Time plus 83%

3

Time plus 35%

Time plus 69%

4 9

Time plus 30%

Time plus 60%

  • 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)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner to join the team in a newly created role, leading on work with patients identified as being intensive users of the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care services. The successful candidate will work as part of the MHLS leadership team and be an experienced, driven, and passionate individual, able to work collaboratively with both patients and wider agencies, to ensure that people are able to access the right care to meet their individual needs, thus reducing a reliance on ED attendances. The successful candidate will have a proven track record demonstrating comprehensive assessment, risk formulation and care planning, working with individual's presenting with complex needs.

  • Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support, and consultation to nursing staff and MDT staff in the MHLS team, in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined within the operational procedures.
  • Support patients who are high intensity users of urgent care services through developing excellent links with the acute hospital Trust and wider agencies, ensuring a strong multi-agency approach to care planning that recognises the often complex physical and mental health needs of this patient group.
  • Take a lead clinical role in the completion of highly developed assessments, risk management, interventions and onward care planning of patients identified as intensive users of the ED.
  • Recognise the importance of individualised care planning and, wherever possible, work collaboratively with patients, families & carers to identify and plan ongoing care needs.
  • Develop robust systems to effectively monitor and evaluate the impact of work completed, using both qualitative and quantitative feedback.
  • Work as part of the wider MHLS, offering biopsychosocial assessment, risk management, brief intervention and care/discharge planning, to a wide range of patient groups, across the hospital footprint.


Please see attached job description and person specification


Staff benefits

  • Pay Enhancements:


Band


Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am


All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)

1

Time plus 47%

Time plus 94%

2

Time plus 41%

Time plus 83%

3

Time plus 35%

Time plus 69%

4 9

Time plus 30%

Time plus 60%

  • 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)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) for a Band 7 Senior Practitioner to join the team in a newly created role, leading on work with patients identified as being intensive users of the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care services. The successful candidate will work as part of the MHLS leadership team and be an experienced, driven, and passionate individual, able to work collaboratively with both patients and wider agencies, to ensure that people are able to access the right care to meet their individual needs, thus reducing a reliance on ED attendances. The successful candidate will have a proven track record demonstrating comprehensive assessment, risk formulation and care planning, working with individual's presenting with complex needs.

  • Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support, and consultation to nursing staff and MDT staff in the MHLS team, in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined within the operational procedures.
  • Support patients who are high intensity users of urgent care services through developing excellent links with the acute hospital Trust and wider agencies, ensuring a strong multi-agency approach to care planning that recognises the often complex physical and mental health needs of this patient group.
  • Take a lead clinical role in the completion of highly developed assessments, risk management, interventions and onward care planning of patients identified as intensive users of the ED.
  • Recognise the importance of individualised care planning and, wherever possible, work collaboratively with patients, families & carers to identify and plan ongoing care needs.
  • Develop robust systems to effectively monitor and evaluate the impact of work completed, using both qualitative and quantitative feedback.
  • Work as part of the wider MHLS, offering biopsychosocial assessment, risk management, brief intervention and care/discharge planning, to a wide range of patient groups, across the hospital footprint.



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