Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (happy to discuss flexible working)
- Job ref
- 437-6389643
- Employer
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Home Based Treatment Team
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
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Home Based Treatment Team Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge in a supportive and forward-thinking team? Then you'll be interested in the exciting opportunities that have arisen to join the Salford Home Based Treatment Team.
HBTT is an alternative to hospital admission, supporting people to remain in their own homes whilst receiving a high level of care and treatment for their mental health.
The Team consist of experienced multi disciplinary colleagues, including Nurses, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, O/T and Psychologist all working within Recovery based model. You will have ongoing supervision with opportunities to develop via relevant training, appropriate to this role.
The role within the team will allow you to develop skills in both assessment and risk management, alongside key working service users who require full HBTT support.
If you are passionate about supporting people and want to enhance your clinical skills in assessment and risk management, then we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Home Based Treatment Team in Salford.
We welcome practitioners from a nursing, social work or occupational therapy discipline.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an enthusiastic and dynamic community team. Home Based Treatment Team provides an alternative to inpatient admission and support people with severe and acute mental health problems in their home whilst undergoing intensive treatment for their mental health needs.
Candidates will be expected to work as a keyworker providing assessments and inform treatment plans for those people under Home Based Treatment. You will be a good communicator and self-motivator who delivers high quality care. You will be expected to carry out in depth assessments in the community and you will be expected to contribute and formulate care plans and risk management plans.
Home based treatment team is a 24/7 service and you will be working on a rota basis, including some weekends, evenings and nights when the service requires .
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see full Job description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy.
- Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 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
Person specification
.Education / qualifications
Essential criteria
- Must have professional registration: NMC, Social Work England, HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Post qualifying training psycho-social intervention's
.Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience in urgent care and/or community
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing and formulation of risk and completing assessments
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent risk assessment and management skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of suicide prevention, completing MSE
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Good assessment skills
- Ability to work alone
Desirable criteria
- Confident independent decision making, experience of assessing patients independently
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Heselwood
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 358 2424
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