Mental Health Practitioner - Perinatal Mental Health

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 Perinatal Mental Health Team is a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Community service that covers the whole of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We specialise in the assessment, diagnosis and short-term treatment of women aged 18 and above who are affected by a moderate to severe mental health illness in the preconception, antenatal and postnatal period.

The NHS Long Term Plan builds on the commitments outlined in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health to transform specialist PMH services across England. As part of the proposed £2.3bn investment in mental health identified in the Long Term Plan, additional investment will support further service developments for perinatal mental health.

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 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 to help support your work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

The role is that of a Mental Health Practitioner and therefore open to those registered as a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker.

The successful candidates will spend their time clinically as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering care to women in a range of community settings. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment for women in the perinatal period which will also involve close liaison with the wider system including midwives, health visitors, GPs, and children's centres. They will provide supervision to other clinical staff working in the perinatal service and support the development of psychologically informed care across the multidisciplinary team.

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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