Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

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. Our community mental health offer is undergoing a major transformation and the South Leicestershire Community Mental Health Team are searching for people with a range of skills and a passion to deliver great mental health services.

We want individuals working in our teams to demonstrate a commitment to a recovery approach and working collaboratively with the people who use our services. We are also 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 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.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for enthusiastic, driven, and positive individuals with a commitment to working with recovery principles and interventions to join our busy team. The team environment is transformative and very supportive, and we always help each other out.

You will need to have experience of working with mental illness in either a community or inpatient setting, and the ability to 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 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. Working in partnership with services to aid the recovery of patients, both within LPT and the voluntary sector.

The successful candidate 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 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.

You will be given a robust induction and will receive regular planned supervision, as well as ad hoc support when needed. You will be supported in developing your knowledge and skills with relevant training opportunities.

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

Cedar Avenue

Wigston

Leicestershire

LE18 2LA

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

Cedar Avenue

Wigston

Leicestershire

LE18 2LA

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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