Role Overview
The Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner – Senior Lead is a senior clinical leadership role within the Greater Manchester Mental Health Liaison Team, working across acute hospital settings including the Emergency Department and inpatient wards. The post holder will assess, treat and safely manage patients presenting with mental health needs, ensuring high‑quality, person‑centred care.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical leadership and support for the Mental Health Liaison Team across the Emergency Department and inpatient wards.
- Assess, treat and manage patients with mental health needs in an acute setting.
- Promote best practice in multidisciplinary team working, huddles, care planning, treatment, risk management and safe move‑on and discharge planning.
- Strengthen integration and pathways between the Emergency Department and wards, ensuring timely, safe transfers.
- Lead in designated specialist areas such as Later Life, CAMHS or agreed pathways, acting as an expertise point and supporting service development.
- Provide supervision, professional development review (PDR) and support individual and team performance against KPIs.
- Contribute to quality improvement activity, governance processes, incident and complaint investigation, learning responses and service improvement.
- Support utilisation of financial, staffing and other resources, and workforce development, education and personal development within the team.
- Promote service user, carer and stakeholder involvement, uphold safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults, and ensure compliance with health and safety, infection control, confidentiality, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Leadership & Governance
Support service management in conjunction with the Team Manager to ensure delivery against operational priorities and KPIs; maintain effective communication with service users, carers, MDT colleagues and partner agencies; and contribute to clinical and social care governance, policy implementation and learning dissemination.
Benefits
- Pay Enhancements
- 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
- FuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Employment Details
This advertisement closes on Sunday 31 May 2026.
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The Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner – Senior Lead is a senior clinical leadership role within the Greater Manchester Mental Health Liaison Team, working across acute hospital settings including the Emergency Department and inpatient wards. The post holder will assess, treat and safely manage patients presenting with mental health needs, ensuring high‑quality, person‑centred care.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical leadership and support for the Mental Health Liaison Team across the Emergency Department and inpatient wards.
- Assess, treat and manage patients with mental health needs in an acute setting.
- Promote best practice in multidisciplinary team working, huddles, care planning, treatment, risk management and safe move‑on and discharge planning.
- Strengthen integration and pathways between the Emergency Department and wards, ensuring timely, safe transfers.
- Lead in designated specialist areas such as Later Life, CAMHS or agreed pathways, acting as an expertise point and supporting service development.
- Provide supervision, professional development review (PDR) and support individual and team performance against KPIs.
- Contribute to quality improvement activity, governance processes, incident and complaint investigation, learning responses and service improvement.
- Support utilisation of financial, staffing and other resources, and workforce development, education and personal development within the team.
- Promote service user, carer and stakeholder involvement, uphold safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults, and ensure compliance with health and safety, infection control, confidentiality, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Leadership & Governance
Support service management in conjunction with the Team Manager to ensure delivery against operational priorities and KPIs; maintain effective communication with service users, carers, MDT colleagues and partner agencies; and contribute to clinical and social care governance, policy implementation and learning dissemination.
Benefits
- Pay Enhancements
- 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
- FuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Employment Details
This advertisement closes on Sunday 31 May 2026.
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