Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Manchester Living Well |
| Trust | Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) NHS Foundation Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Paul O’Keeffe, Ruth Hartman – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Team Managers & Practice Education Leads for learners/students |
| Placement Address | We are a team comprising of different ‘neighbourhoods’ within the City of Manchester.
The current hub for this placement is Living Well North, 89 North Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 4EJ Manchester Living Well Central Team– 422 Stockport Road, Longsight Manchester M12 4EX and Manchester Living Well South Team – Living Well Annexe, Benchill Community Centre, Benchill Road, Wythenshawe M22 8EJ |
| Placement City/Town: | Manchester |
| Phone No: | 0161 271 0311 |
| Your University Contact: | TBC |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Introduction and orientation
- Allocation of an Assessor and introduction to supervisors
- Introduction to the Living Well model
- Shadowing opportunities
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Allocated assessor and supervisor identified and recorded on PARE. Learners/students are expected to work with the whole team and observe interprofessional working and education.
This includes members of our team who may be directly employed by other organisation in the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Core working hours are Monday – Friday 9-5.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Holistic Assessment and collaborative support – We use a trauma informed, strength based, goal focussed model when working with people who come into our service. We adopt a personalised/ individual nursing care model, where lived experience is at the heart of our model (this is reflected by collaborative working along side our peer support workers).
We work to a care planning framework which includes Dialog+ (an evidence-based framework for Holistic Assessment of needs within a Solutions-Focused framework) and Goals-Based Outcomes.
Mental Health practitioners routinely carry out a range of standard assessments and interventions including Mental State Examinations, Risk Assessments (based on standard trust tools as well as co-produced screening tools that incorporate Structured Clinical Judgement and 5p formulation) and Collaborative Safety Plans
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
Initial assessment/ initial conversation, looking holistically at someone’s life, considering histories of past trauma, as well as their strengths and goals.
Risk assessments as and when required and procedures (such as escalating risks via Team managers and Clinical Lead).
Mental state examinations where required.
MDT and wider network liaison.
Joint working and supporting link workers and peer support worker within our team.
Key working- delivering short term interventions, from mood and anxiety management, sleep hygiene, distress tolerance and stabilisation work and many more.
Psycho education work.
Goal setting and reviews.
Case discussion and problem solving.
What resources are available to help students learning?
GMMH library
GMMH Learning Hub
Various staff members of different disciplines including staff in the private, independent and voluntary sector
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
We collaborate with and often refer clients to wider research programmes
e.g. RESTART (Trauma informed talking therapy support for individuals with unusual experiences)
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