About The Role
GMMH is developing services to ensure that care is delivered in a trauma‑informed and close‑to‑home manner. This Senior Practitioner role is part of the inpatient services development journey. The role involves delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crisis, providing specialist psychological and relational interventions and supporting trauma‑informed care approaches. The Senior Practitioner will also contribute to staff expertise in working with Complex Emotional and Relational Needs (CERN) and lead within multidisciplinary teams, offering consultation, supervision and training to enhance staff confidence and resilience.
Key Highlights
* Progressive and supportive team commitment to improving inpatient mental health care and crisis intervention.
* Access to ongoing professional development, training and supervision.
* Opportunities to shape service delivery and influence best practices.
* Value placed on compassion, collaboration and innovation.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist assessment and interventions for individuals with complex emotional and relational needs.
* Support inpatient teams in delivering trauma‑informed, psychologically informed care.
* Offer clinical supervision, consultation and training to enhance staff skills and resilience.
* Lead on service development initiatives, ensuring best practices in relational and emotional needs care.
* Work collaboratively with MDTs, urgent care and community teams, and external agencies to facilitate safe and effective transitions of care.
* Contribute to risk management, crisis intervention and de‑escalation strategies.
* Deliver therapeutic intervention and relevant clinical pathways to an identified caseload.
* Maintain professional competence and fitness to practice with individuals presenting with complex emotional and relational needs.
* Conduct comprehensive risk assessment and devise/implement risk assessment plans for vulnerable service users.
* Develop psychologically informed formulations to guide MDT treatment and management decisions.
* Provide evidence‑based therapeutic interventions aligned with recovery‑model, personalization agenda and trauma‑informed perspective.
* Support skills development of team members through structured clinical supervision, consultation and liaison.
Qualifications
Experience (Essential)
* Experience working with people who have a diagnosis of personality disorder.
* Experience working within inpatient or urgent care mental health services.
* Experience providing a supervisory role to staff.
Experience (Desirable)
* Experience delivering training.
* Experience working with high risk service users.
Knowledge (Essential)
* Understanding of therapeutic approaches in managing crisis.
* Knowledge and application of structured therapeutic interventions.
Knowledge (Desirable)
* Knowledge and application of interventions in inpatient services.
Pay and Benefits
Pay Enhancements: Band Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any weekday after 8 pm and before 6 am; All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight).
Time‑plus rates: 1 Time plus 47%; 2 Time plus 94%; 3 Time plus 41%; 4 Time plus 83%; 5 Time plus 35%; 6 Time plus 69%; 7 Time plus 30%; 8 Time plus 60%.
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 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).
About Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust
GMMH employs over 7 000 members of staff to deliver inpatient and community‑based mental health care across Greater Manchester and beyond. We work in cities such as Bolton, Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Wigan, with specialist mental health and substance misuse services. The trust encourages innovation, learning and new ideas to improve care for service users.
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