About this role
Job summary
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.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 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.
Job description Job 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)
Person Specification
Essential Essential
Professional Registration Extensive MHLT Experience
Desireable Desirable
Supervision Experience Experience of QI and Change Management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address MHLT Central MRI and Rawnsley Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)