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Home Based Treatment Team Practitioner | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2024 |
| Location: | Salford, M6 8HG |
| Company: | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6564273/437-6564273 |
Summary
Are you an experienced nurse, social worker or occupational therapist with a background in Mental Health and a drive for working in urgent care? If you thrive in a dynamic environment, have excellent problem solving skills and have a real passion to make positive changes to those experiencing mental health crisis-Salford Home Based Treatment is the team for you!
HBTT is a true 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.
We work within both medical and social models of care and use a strengths-based approach to recovery, ensuring service users receive the right care at the right time. We work closely with community teams across the Salford footprint to ensure consistent and knowledgeable care.
Our team is truly multi disciplinary- our Mental Health Practitioners are from various professional backgrounds: RMNs, Social Workers, Occupational Therapist. We work alongside our medical team and Clinical Psychologist with a recovery focus.
We believe that staff well-being is the building blocks of a great team and ensure that staff are valued and supported through regular supervision, team formulations, regular team training and development opportunities.
Your role within the team will allow you to develop excellent skills in both bio-psycho-social assessment and risk management, alongside key working service users who require full HBTT support.
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 .
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.
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
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Sep 2024