Mental Health Skills Facilitator

The Mental Health Skills Facilitator is responsible for delivering professional and client-centred learning and development interventions to meet the essential and relevant to role needs of clinical staff within the organisation. In conjunction with the Continuing Professional Development Manager, the post holder will develop and deliver learning and development interventions in accordance with the delivery of the Trust strategy, vision, values and desired culture to ensure that the Trust is equipped to provide a world class patient experience and is a great place to work for its staff.

The successful candidate will be able to work effectively as a Mental Health Skills Facilitator within a mental health and learning disability Trust. They will have excellent communication skills, and welcome a challenge and have a real desire to make a difference to the clinical skills within Trust held by a range of clinical teams. The main duties of the job will include identifying and leading on a range of clinical skills specializing in the Trust specialty of mental health and learning disability including common Mental Health conditions, Clinical Risk Formulation, STORM, Brief Intervention Training, Psychosocial Intervention Training, and other skills, behaviours and competencies as required. The successful candidate will be required to form key relationships with a range of stakeholders across the Trust and beyond in order to ensure that evidence based clinical skills are taught within the Trust.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for a range of a resources within their allocated projects. They will also be required to contribute where appropriate to research and development within the Trust.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, across five boroughs of Greater Manchester

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.

Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

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 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 staff wellbeing.

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Treanor Job title: Continuing Professional Development Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0161 716 4821