Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for you! Are you caring, innovative and passionate about your work? Do you value putting your patients first and working with them towards recovery? Are you motivated to learn and develop your psychotherapy skills? If so, then YOU are the person we are looking for.

We have a really exciting opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Occupational Therapist, or other suitably qualified health care professional to come and work with us as a permanent member of our Adult Eating Disorders Outpatient team.

If you want a permanent Band 6 Eating Disorder Therapist job, then we are looking for you. We want you to join our small highly specialist team, providing psychological interventions for outpatients suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder.

You will need to have a core mental health profession, be up to date with all professional requirements relevant to your qualification and have significant post registration experience.

Experience of working with people with an eating disorder will be a particular strength for the right candidate. However, we are able to offer opportunities for with those with limited experience in a developmental role.

You will be experienced in offering individual or group psychotherapy for patients and will have worked in a mental health setting, either inpatient, outpatient or community, to deliver this treatment.

For more details, please click 'apply for this job'.

Main duties of the job

• To work autonomously, taking responsibility for care, quality and clinical activity for a designated caseload of service users providing assessments, care plans, risk assessments and reviews as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To contribute to care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality:
• Patient safety
• The effectiveness of all health care interventions.
• Patient experience
• The environment in which care is delivered
• To actively contribute to the improvement of service and quality of care provision to meet the needs of service users, service users and their families.
• To act as role model and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.
• Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of evidenced based care to service users according to changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity.

Please note that a full UK Driving Licence and access to a car during working hours is required for this role. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bennion Centre

Glenfield Hospital

Leicester

Leicestershire

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

Bennion Centre

Glenfield Hospital

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9EJ

Employer's website

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

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