Mental Health Practitioner

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

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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!

It is an exciting time for Mental Health Services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland as our Community Mental Health offer is undergoing a major transformation.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join our South Leicestershire Community Mental Health Team within the Directorate of Adult Mental Health.

We are looking for people who can develop relationships and work in an integrated way with a range of practitioners from outside of the NHS including Primary Care, Social Care and the Voluntary-Community sector. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, driven, and positive with a commitment to working with recovery principles and interventions within our busy team.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important 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. The team environment is transformative and very supportive, and we always help each other out.

We also offer a generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days as well as access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached).

Main duties of the job

You will be working with Mental Health in a Community setting and will manage your own diary and the demands of a caseload.

You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, carrying out duties autonomously and using your own initiative.

You will be able to demonstrate a commitment to a recovery approach and working collaboratively with the people who use our services.

You will work as care co-ordinator for patients with a variety of mental health problems, providing high quality care in a community setting, promoting and ensuring recovery focused care and social inclusion.

You will be working in partnership with services to aid the recovery of patients, both within LPT and the voluntary sector.

You will be involved in and chair regular Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings. These meetings allow you to use your clinical knowledge and expertise to support your colleagues. You will have the opportunity to use your clinical assessment skills for new patients referred to the service, which will be discussed in the MDT for a team decision on the outcome.

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

14 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

C9313-24-0400

Job locations

The Cedars Centre

Cedar Avenue

Wigston

Leicestershire

LE18 2LA

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've 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've 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

Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Psychologist.
Evidence of relevant post graduate registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions to enable the management of a caseload of service users with complex needs.

Desirable

Non-medical Prescriber or willing to work towards (those with NMC Registration only).

Experience

Essential

Significant post registration/qualification experience of working with service users with complex mental health needs.
Significant experience of undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments.
Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality service user centred care and patient education.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Psychologist.
Evidence of relevant post graduate registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions to enable the management of a caseload of service users with complex needs.

Desirable

Non-medical Prescriber or willing to work towards (those with NMC Registration only).

Experience

Essential

Significant post registration/qualification experience of working with service users with complex mental health needs.
Significant experience of undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments.
Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality service user centred care and patient education.