Community Connector

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 28 March 2025

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!

The community connector is a brand-new role within the Leicestershire Partnership Trust, Mental Health Planned Care Services to help support people to achieve better mental health and wellbeing, increasing independence and reducing reliance on services. This role is part of a wider transformation project in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland to redesign community mental health care, with the aim of supporting more people closer to home, reducing the stigma around mental health and enabling existing services to work together more effectively.

Based in the MH Neighbourhood teams, they will link in with a wider integrated team of voluntary sector, local authority, and primary care staff. The post-holder will work with adults and older adults within the neighbourhood teams which is a service supporting individuals with Serious Mental Illness. There are currently 4 vacancies across the following 3 areas in Leicestershire.

City West
Melton
Blaby and Lutterworth
Hinckley

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work with adults and older adults within the neighborhood teams which is a service supporting individuals with Serious Mental Illness, under direction of the MDT, the postholder will be expected to assist in providing a professional, efficient, and seamless service, being the first point of contact for individuals referred into the neighborhood team consistently delivering high-quality individual sessions to patients providing advice and information to promote healthier lifestyles and recovery. This is a patient facing role and involves assessment of risk and needs, development of appropriate intervention plans to address needs through brief interventions.

The community connector role will link and support service users to voluntary and community sector organisations, based on need and provide support with engagement. As the role is new, the successful applicant needs to be innovative and proactive in engaging service users but also forming links with local external agencies and have an excellent ability to communicate with individuals that may be present with complex needs

The successful candidate will also be expected to demonstrate the Trusts values in everything you do in the work environment and live up to LPTs Leadership Behaviors and undertake detailed holistic assessments of needs with a view to understanding patients care needs and identification of therapeutic interventions to address need.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. 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 serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. 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 can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. 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

07 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

002850

Job locations

Glenfield Hospital,Groby Road,Glenfield,

Leicester,LE3 9QP

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9QP

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

Essential

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

Essential

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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.