Senior Clinical Gate Keeper | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	18 Chwefror 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	05 Ebrill 2026
Lleoliad:	Prestwich, M45 7JZ
Cwmni:	Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7784822/437-7784822

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This is an opportunity for senior mental health professionals to work in a citywide team of senior Clinical Gate Keepers. We are looking for experienced practitioners to work across the mental health system to support good patient flow.



The Senior Gate Keeper will support the urgent care system to develop a community first approach and ensure all inpatient admissions have a clearly stated purpose.

The Senior Gate Keeper will work as part of the patient flow team, and contribute to effective patient flow.

The Senior Gate Keeper will contribute to a 7 day citywide rota to provide face to face gate keeping, give remote advice and have oversight of all gate keeping activity.

The Senior Gate Keeper will provide targeted support, training and oversight to a local system, spending at least a day a week there, developing the urgent care teams.

The Senior Gate Keeper will work closely with Approved Mental Health Professional Colleagues to ensure standards are maintained when referring for and completing Mental Health Act assessments.



The Senior Gate Keepers will work with Operational and Quality Colleagues to ensure essential standards are met and exceeded.

The Senior Gate Keepers will work with urgent care, inpatient and community colleagues to ensure that the principles of purposeful admissions are embedded in all services.

The Senior Gate Keepers will act as clinical leaders in patient flow and urgent care services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective high quality clinical care and consistent achievement of care standards through

· Evidence based clinical practice

· Leadership

· Education

· Service improvement and research

The Senior Gate Keeper will support the patient flow and urgent care systems to develop a community first approach and ensure all admissions have a clearly stated purpose.



The Senior Gate Keeper will contribute to a 7 day citywide rota to provide face to face gate keeping, remote advice and oversight of all gate keeping activity.



The Senior Gate Keeper will provide targeted support, training and oversight to a local system, spending at least a day a week there developing the urgent care teams.



The Senior Gate Keeper will work closely with Approved Mental Health Professional Colleagues to ensure standards are maintained when referring for and completing Mental Health Act assessments.



The Senior Gate Keepers will work with Operational and Quality Colleagues to ensure essential standards are met and exceeded.



The Senior Gate Keepers will act as clinical leaders in patient flow and urgent care services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective high quality clinical care and consistent achievement of care standards.

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.

· To be a clinical Leader in the Patient Flow and Urgent Care Services

· To demonstrate high level communication and relationship skills, being able to negotiate with senior and junior team members and motivate, always reassure and lead teams in a positive manner

· To be visible, accessible and demonstrate an authoritative presence in practice settings to whom staff, service users and their families can turn to for assistance, advice and support

· To act as a role model to support teams to provide excellent clinical and risk assessments and care planning

· Be able to manage the process of change, challenging resistance and negativity

· Work in partnership with others to develop local strategies that support the service to meet its goals

· Ensure a collaborative care philosophy is used and there are effective communication links with external professional groups

· Contribute to the development of local business plans and the delivery of key performance targets

· Contribute to policy and procedure development within the urgent care services

· Provide constructive feedback to colleagues and be able to receive feedback on one’s own work and development to enable practitioners to evaluate their practice openly and honestly to develop patient care.

· Recognise and value diversity in the workforce by promoting anti discriminatory behaviour

· Deputise for the Strategic Gate Keeper in their absence

· Attend the relevant Senior Leadership Meetings, contributing positively and effectively to the meeting

· Participate in the on-call rota



· To undertake senior gate keeping assessments

· To have excellent clinical and risk assessment and management skills

· To ensure all admissions have a clear purpose

· Work with operational and quality colleagues to ensure the urgent care teams are achieving the highest standards of clinical and risk assessment, care planning and management

· Promote the Mental Health Act Code of Practice and ensure the urgent care teams are working to the principle of care being offered in the least restrictive environment

· Have a broad knowledge of community interventions and access routes

· Work closely with community and inpatient teams to ensure admissions are purposeful and that patients are discharged at the right time

· To work collaboratively with patients and their families and carers

· To work in partnership with Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise providers

· To recognise safeguarding concerns and ensure appropriate reporting and management of safeguarding concerns

· To ensure clinical practice is in line with evidenced best practice

· To be responsible for auditing clinical practice

· Support service user and carer involvement through working with leads to champion service user/ carer collaboration with service development

· Address any concerns raised through complaints and lessons learned

· Promote high standards of quality in corporate and clinical recording ensuring information is recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date

· Contribute to the development of quality initiatives with partners and other agencies

· Support and develop health promotion initiatives and service users and colleagues providing information, education and support.

· Provide statistical information when required

· Support implementation on NICE guidance

· Ensure that they adhere to Trust Policy and Procedure and ensure that others do the same

· To report incidents



· Support staff development through induction, appraisal, personal development including clinical supervision, reflective practice, peer review and teaching

· To support clinical practice development and ensure that the fundamentals of care are right and that clinical innovations are rolled out in a timely and managed way

· Demonstrate high levels of clinical leadership that ensures evidence based and reflective practices are delivering best local and national practice



· To take responsibility for own clinical supervision, appraisal, objective setting and personal development planning in order to maintain professional registration and standards

· To monitor and promote the development of practitioner clinical skills, knowledge and competency

· To take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn in line with appriaisal and supervision

· Commitment to own continuous professional development

· To meet with Strategic Gate Keeper for managerial supervision

· Take reasonable care of the health and safety of self and others, recognising persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work and co operate with the Trust in adhering to statutory and departmental safety regulations

· Work with Trust health and Safety and Clinical Risk Managers to implement risk management policy, ensuring systems are in place to identify actual or potential risk to patients, relatives and carers and actions to minimise or manage risk are taken

· To work with all staff to ensure the safety and security of patients, staff and carers.

· Report any incident, accident or near miss on the Trust incident reporting system involving patients, carers, staff contractors or members of the public

· To ensure health and safety issues are reported for consideration of inclusion on the risk register

· To ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promoting services user’s health, safety and recovery.

· Ensure adherence to all clinical policies. This will include the safe management of medicines

· To ensure safeguarding adult and children policy is followed

· To access only information which is authorised as part of your duties

· Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation and Trust Policy and procedure related to equality and diversity

· Ensure compliance with mandatory training

· Ensure knowledge and oversight of any themes from complaints and lessons learned

· Treat everyone equally and with dignity and respect and ensure you practice the Trust values

· Carry out all duties in accordance with equal opportunities, equality and diversity and dignity in care/ work policies and procedures

· Remain professional at all times, always promoting positive behaviour



· Undertake any reasonable duty when requested to do so by an appropriate Trust manager

· Understand and support the Trust’s strategic goals and values into action




This advert closes on Friday 20 Mar 2026