This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join a dynamic, expanding team. Bury Home Treatment is extending its hours to become a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week service.
Working pattern for the post includes shift work across 7 days, including bank holidays, with rotating days and nights as part of the Home Treatment Team (HTT) to deliver effective responses to service users. Responsibilities include clinical assessments, interventions focusing on relapse prevention, and improving quality of life.
The role involves providing face-to-face gatekeeping during the night for Bury and potentially across the North division, as well as reviewing and assessing patients referred from S136 assessments for suitability for HTT.
The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic, driven registered practitioner capable of working autonomously in the community, conducting comprehensive mental health assessments, managing risks, and collaborating within a multidisciplinary team. The team also provides community-based clozapine titration.
Our team comprises nurses, OTs, social workers, QAPs, and support workers, working closely with consultant psychiatrists, community mental health teams, inpatient wards, and other MDT members.
The post holder will conduct reviews in safe environments, including patients seeking self-discharge, providing safer discharges, and managing HTT patients presenting at A&E. Emergency home visits may be undertaken if risk assessments deem it safe, offering flexibility for supervised medication regimes.
As a 24-hour team, we provide round-the-clock telephone support to patients, including those on the community Clozapine pathway, and are involved in service development.
Key responsibilities include undertaking psychosocial and risk assessments, acting as a co-worker for service users with acute mental health issues, and liaising with care coordinators and other team members to implement treatment plans.
The role involves gatekeeping for inpatient admissions, including assessments under the MHA, offering alternatives to hospital admission through home treatment where appropriate.
The practitioner must deliver care in accordance with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies, the Mental Health Act, and community care legislation.
We are committed to providing high-quality mental health and learning disability services across Greater Manchester's five boroughs—Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier, more hopeful life for everyone in our communities, and we strive to offer excellent care.
The role includes developing individualized care packages, providing intensive home treatment, crisis management, and short-term psychotherapeutic interventions. It also involves creating supported discharge pathways for inpatients, safeguarding, liaising with other agencies, evaluating outcomes, involving families and carers, and providing education and self-help resources tailored to individual needs.
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