Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

The post holder will be based in the OP Community Mental Health Liaison Team and covers the borough of Stockport. You will work alongside the Urgent Community Response Team to provide specialist mental health nursing advice and a joint assessment service. You will provide direct care to service users to support individuals who are in crisis because of physical health or social status changes which is directly, or indirectly, impacting on the individual's mental health.

The role also includes communicating and supporting wider health and social care professional groups to model effective approaches of care when supporting individuals with mental health needs. This post is full time and a seven day service.

• Represent the OP Community Mental Health Liaison Team whilst working across the Stockport borough and to work in conjunction with the Urgent Community Response Team.
• Triage all referrals that are made to the service and allocate clinical priority.
• Carry out a thorough assessment of the service users  current mental health needs, including risk assessment, psychological needs and cognitive functioning.
• Demonstrate the ability to make decisions in relation to the clinical management of individual patients and make critical clinical judgements in relation to mental health and care provision within the community setting.
• Assess and manage clients presenting with co-morbidities of physical and mental health needs including the impact of medication and infection.
• Model appropriate methods of communication and care delivery to social care staff.
• An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and motivated person to join the Older Peoples Mental Health Liaison Team as a Mental Health Practitioner.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services.

We re really proud of our#Pennine Care Peopleand  do everything we can to make sure we re a great place to work.

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel