Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Salford Living Well |
| Trust | Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) NHS Foundation Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Clare Hughes, Nicola Desmond Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | PEL |
| Placement Address | Working across Manchester. Hubs in North, South and Central Salford localities. |
| Placement City/Town: | |
| Placement Phone | 0161 271 0042 |
| Your University Contact: | Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Introduction to Living Well- our model in Salford, values, procedures, pathways, etc.
Introduction to our 5 neighbourhood teams and our work with the primary care network across the Salford directorate.
Shadowing opportunities will aim to be set up for the initial days of placement on commencement
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Allocated assessor and supervisor for each placement. Learning opportunities will be offered by Living Well staff and our wider network partners.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Monday – Friday, 9am -5pm (excluding Bank Holidays).
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
The Salford Living Well team provides holistic support to ensure people are able to live the life they want to lead. What that support looks like, is shaped by the person, and their needs and goals – whether this be finance, housing, employment, mental illness or loneliness. We are a short-term, person-centered intervention team which focuses on people’s strengths and what they personally want to achieve. We work collaboratively to set solution focused goals and work alongside individuals to help them get back on their feet.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
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).
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Initial assessment- we like to call initial conversation, looking holistically at someone’s life, making a trauma enquiry, as well as their strengths and goals.
Risk assessments as and when required and procedures (such as escalating risks via safety huddles).
Mental state examinations where required.
MDT and wider network liaison.
Joint working and supporting recovery 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 additional clinical skills can be learnt?
What resources are available to help students learning?
GMMH library
GMMH Learning Hub
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Spoke Placements
Wellbeing matters (social prescribing)
Six Degrees (talking therapy)
MIND in Salford
Various VCSE (voluntary 3rd sector) organisations
Community Mental Health Teams (in each locality)
GMMH PCN mental health workers (based in GP surgeries)
Home based treatment Team
Achieve substance misuse service
Safe in Salford (domestic abuse service)
Additional Information:
Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) for Salford and Trafford is Helen.Morgan@gmmh.nhs.uk