Mental Health Practitioner

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 28 June 2024

Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have an excellent opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join our team as a Mental Health Practitioner.

We are a Community Mental Health team providing Mental Health Services for Older People within the directorate of Adult Mental Health. We visit service users within the community in their own homes who have a functional and organic mental health illness.

The ideal candidate will be friendly, independent, confident, trustworthy and non-judgemental and you will be joining a well established and supportive team.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

We also offer:

A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
Health and Wellbeing Support

For an informal chat, please contact Julie Sherwin on 01162956036 or email julie.sherwin6@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

You will be working within a Multi Disciplinary team comprising of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Health Care Support Workers and Peer Support Workers as well as Medics and Admin staff.

You will continue to establish the good links we have with neighbourhoods and voluntary sectors, as well as Social care.

You will visit service users and assess their mental health and present that assessment back to the MDT.

You will complete:

Risk Assessments
Core Assessments
Care Plans
CPA documentations

You will also complete other relevant information, working with social services and other agencies.

Car driver is essential for this job role.

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.

Date posted

21 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year incremental points

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-24-0738

Job locations

Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Bennion Centre

Groby Road, Glenfield Hospital Site

Leicester

LE3 9DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you have read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you have read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse/Registered Occupational Therapist/Registered Social Worker.
Evidence of continuing professional development within the last 12 months.
Hold an NMC approved mentoring qualification Leadership or Management Qualification or willingness to work towards it.

Desirable

Audit experience/ research skills
Experience of Patient and Public Involvement in Service Delivery

Experience

Essential

Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality patient centre nursing care and patient education.
Experience in teaching and supervision.
Act as a clinical role model, mentor assessor and support for learners.

Desirable

Previous community experience
Experience in Mental Health

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse/Registered Occupational Therapist/Registered Social Worker.
Evidence of continuing professional development within the last 12 months.
Hold an NMC approved mentoring qualification Leadership or Management Qualification or willingness to work towards it.

Desirable

Audit experience/ research skills
Experience of Patient and Public Involvement in Service Delivery

Experience

Essential

Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality patient centre nursing care and patient education.
Experience in teaching and supervision.
Act as a clinical role model, mentor assessor and support for learners.

Desirable

Previous community experience
Experience in Mental Health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.