Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Night and weekend shifts)
- Job ref
- 311-O667-25
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Forest House, Royal Oldham Hospital
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Mental Health Practitioner
6
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
Exciting oppurtunity to become part of a newly established team for Pennine Care responding to teams whom have a mental health concern for a service user in the community. The team will triage requests for crisis support and provide safety planning and onward referral for service users referred to the team.
Main duties of the job
applicants please see job description and Person spec for more information about this post ( attached)
Working for our organisation
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 #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants please see job description and Person spec for more information about this post ( Attached)
Person specification
Clinical skills
Essential criteria
- Communication Skills
- Triage skills
- professional qualification
- experience of working in Crisis mental health services
Desirable criteria
- experience of 136 procedures
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Warrender
- Job title
- Service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07733010108
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