RECONNECT Registered 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!

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated qualified band 6 Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker to join our team as a RECONNECT Registered Practitioner within the Directorate of Mental Health.

The Reconnect registered Practitioner will take a lead role in the ongoing development of the RECONNECT Service across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland, The purpose of this role is to deliver care after custody to individuals with a health need, released after remand or on completion of sentence from Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR) Prisons such as HMP Leicester, HMP Stocken and HMP Fosse Way; or for individuals leaving an immigration removal centre. The post holder will have a keen interest in health and justice and a passion for supporting people as they are released from prison and will work as part of a team and liaise closely with Criminal Justice Partners to work with individuals who have been referred.

The Successful candidate will be providing screening and assessment to build a personal plan for the service user to enable a smooth transition into community life.

Main duties of the job

To perform comprehensive assessments of needs and risk assessments with service users. To formulate support plans collaboratively with service users and their carers/relatives. To involve service users and carers / relatives in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of support.

To oversee the support delivery provided to service users by RECONNECT engagement workers and peer support workers. To work collaboratively with key stakeholders and professionals within the criminal justice setting including within the prison and probation service to support the development and maintenance of effective referral pathways. Please see the attached Addendum for further 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

County Hall, Penn Lloyd Building

Glenfield

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

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

County Hall, Penn Lloyd Building

Glenfield

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

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

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