Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner - Nursing

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Registered Professional (Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists) to join the Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit.

The key skills for this role will be the ability to demonstrate excellent ongoing assessment, problem solving and risk assessment skills.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work independently.

Why join us:

• You'll receive support both emotional and for your ongoing continuing professional development.
• We have regular one to ones where you can be frank, open and honest about matters affecting you and your work
• You'll have access to a range of additional benefits such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help your work-life balance
• You're part of a team. We work collaboratively with Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers, OTs and others. The collective support and knowledge is there to enable you to do your work
• We understand that you have a life outside of work and therefore offer a range of agile and flexible working opportunities for our staff you care and so do we.

Main duties of the job

The Role of a band 5 Mental Health Practitioner within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment is to:

• Co-ordinate and provide specialist acute crisis psychiatric interventions and expertise to services users in crisis 24/7 per 52 weeks per year within their own home/residence
• To facilitate early discharge (Step Down) where appropriate and provide an effective viable alternative to hospital admission for clients in crisis by developing and individualised approach to the practical and functional needs of the service user.
• The role is dynamic and requires specialist assessment of risk
• The Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team is professional and diverse team to work with and will provide you with lots of experience across the acute sector

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Groby Road

Leicester

LE3 9EJ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Groby Road

Leicester

LE3 9EJ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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