Dual Diagnosis Senior Practitioner
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£56,515 Per year
Outside
Onsite
Bolton, Greater Manchester
Summary: This role is for a Senior Practitioner within the Bolton Specialist Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), focusing on supporting service users with severe mental illness (SMI) and co-occurring conditions. The position involves leading a cluster team, providing assessments, interventions, and care planning, while enhancing pathways to substance misuse support. The role emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and aims to ensure inclusivity in mental health services. The position requires travel across the Bolton borough and participation in an on-call rota.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a cluster team within the CMHT to support clients with SMI and co-occurring conditions.
- Provide assessment, formulation, brief and extended interventions, and collaborative care planning.
- Deliver and embed training for CMHT keyworkers.
- Strengthen pathways into substance misuse support and improve continuity of care.
- Contribute to Rapid Reviews of Care and facilitate reflective supervision groups.
- Hold a small caseload or engage in joint work.
- Join the operational on-site/on-call rota and deputise for team managers as required.
Key Skills:
- Experience in mental health and substance misuse services.
- Strong leadership and team collaboration skills.
- Ability to conduct assessments and develop care plans.
- Training and mentoring capabilities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of co-occurring conditions and their impact on service users.
Salary (Rate): £56,515 yearly
City: Bolton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
This is a new and exciting post created within the Bolton Specialist CMHT's to enhance the support offered to service users with an SMI and a co-occurring condition.
This senior practitioner post will lead a cluster team within the CMHT, in line with the Community Transformation transformed model offer, to offer an flexible and proactive approach to supporting this client group
The Senior Practitioner role will provide assessment, formulation, brief and extended interventions, and collaborative care planning with the MDT and wider substance misuse services. The post will strengthen pathways into substance misuse support, improve continuity of care between inpatient and community teams, and between specialist CMHT and external providers.
Key responsibilities include delivering and embedding training, supporting CMHT keyworkers, leading the co-occurring conditions cluster within the community transformation model, and holding a small caseload or joint work. The role also contributes to relevant Rapid Reviews of Care and facilitates reflective supervision groups.
A core focus is ensuring people are not excluded from mental health or substance misuse services due to co-occurring conditions. Strong multidisciplinary relationships are essential.
The post covers the Bolton borough and requires travel. Relevant CPD opportunities will be available. The post holder will also join the operational on-site/on-call rota and deputise for team managers as required
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.
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
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