Band 7 Team Lead/Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Team Leader/Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment.

The post is open to experienced practitioners from a variety of disciplines including nursing, social work, and occupational therapy who are passionate and motivated.

This is an opportunity to join our busy crisis service, as a team lead and senior Mental Health Practitioner, requiring the successful post holder to have both clinical and operational responsibilities.

Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team provides an assessment and home treatment service where intense input is required to prevent hospital admission or support early transition from hospital.

You will lead the Crisis Team, to deliver a 7 day a week Mental Health Crisis service for a geographical area.

You will need to be a motivated and dynamic leader who can inspire and motivate your team to provide high quality clinical care

The successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to work independently, also demonstrate flexibility in the way they work and able to take on different roles within the pathway, ensuring a clear leadership vision is maintained.

This service will operate 365 days a year over a 24-hour rotation providing cover day and night. As part of the role, staff will be expected to work shift patterns (not usually nights)

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Team Lead, you will be working within the leadership structure of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service.

The post holder will be expected to ensure the team adopts the policies and philosophy of LPT.

The Clinical Team lead will promote independence, foster a learning culture, and enhance the autonomy of the service user, and ensuring high quality, compassionate, person-centred care.

The post holder will clinically, and professionally lead Crisis and Home Treatment Service and will provide supervision to the team members.

Through strong leadership they will ensure evidence-based practice is delivered to improve the quality of and shape responsive services.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that established clinical mechanisms support safe, high-quality care throughout the 24-hour period.

The post holder will be required to clinically co-ordinate and lead a multi-agency staff team and ensure the provision and development of an effective service in line with legislative, procedural, and contractual requirements.

The post holder will provide strong and effective clinical leadership

Above all the post holder will ensure provision of a safe, culturally competent, effective, timely and accessible service that is in accordance with national and local priorities and responsive to the needs of individuals in contact with the service

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

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

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

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

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

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