Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced RMN, RGN, OT or Social Worker with relevant post-registration experience?If yes we would love to hear from you.

We provide a caring service to people over the age of 65 years who have complex organic and functional mental health needs, and people under the age of 65 with early onset dementia. Our specialist services have a locality focus within outpatients, CMHTs, Urgent Care Services and Inpatients, adopting a multi-disciplinary team approach.

You will have a clinical case load and work in collaboration with patients and their carers visiting patients in their own homes and link in with neighbourhood teams, Adult social care and Primary Care Network. You will also work in the multidisciplinary team that will provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment programs and management of risks. We will deliver evidence based interventions/treatments and recovery focused approach.

You will need to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to high quality care as well as possessing good therapeutic and interpersonal skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential and the ability to work alone and as part of a wider team. You will engage in a regular clinical/managerial supervision and annual appraisal and you will lead and participate in the development of staff through their appraisal and clinical supervision.

A full driving licence is essential and a car-leasing scheme is in operation.

Main duties of the job

The CMHTs provide a caring service to people over the age of 65 years who have complex organic and functional mental health needs, and people under the age of 65 with early onset dementia. We aim to support our patients in a recovery focused approach and put an emphasis on living well, recovery, self -management and person centred approach.

The CMHT is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurses and Healthcare Support Workers, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists. The teams provide face-to-face assessments and care for service users referred via the Central Access Point, In-patients and Crisis Teams.

The key skills required for these roles include the ability to demonstrate excellent on-going assessment, risk assessment and problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills.

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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