Mental Health Facilitator

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 13 May 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!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Mental Health Facilitator Service.

The service covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, we would allocate an area for the successful candidate, but we support other area's when required.

We deliver health checks to patients on the SMI register, these include blood tests and care plans, and candidates would need to be or agree to be phlebotomy trained.

The team is an extremely supportive and effective team, rated no 1 in the midlands region for achieving health checks above targets set nationally.

Candidates will need to have good assessment skills and be able to engage with patients effectively to create a collaborative and meaningful care plan, have a good understanding of the effects of medications and mental illness and the impact on physical health, work in collaboration with our GP partners and also be able to refer on to other services when required.

Contact Details:Team Manager Tracy Bessant; tracy.bessant1nhs.net

Team Leads;

Debbie Ngwena; debbie.ngwenya@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to provide clear information around health promotion and psychoeducation to people who use our services as well as providing educational input and supervision to nursing students and junior colleagues.

You will need to be able to work flexibly and collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team and other agencies. You will need to be able to assess risk dynamically and work to safeguard our clients at al times. You will work in our Team Base and in people's homes.

To be able to manage your diary and clinics within a GP surgery to complete physical health observations and mental health care plans.

To work with people from both primary and secondary care to ensure best patient outcomes.

To complete physical health checks including blood tests to ensure patients are receiving all required checks to support their well being.

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

17 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,368 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

003315

Job locations

Narborough Health Centre,Thornton Drive

,Narborough,Leicester,LE19 2GX

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE19 2GX

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

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Qualifications

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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.