Job Overview
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 we are searching for people with a range of skills and a passion to deliver great mental health services.
An opportunity has arisen within our South Leicestershire Community Mental Health Teams for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner. We are based at the Neville Centre near Leicester General Hospital.
If you are an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced RMN, RGN, OT or SW with relevant post-registration experience, we would like you to join our friendly CMHT. 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.
The post holders will maintain a clinical case load, fulfilling all the roles and responsibilities of a Care Coordinator. They will work effectively in the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality mental health assessments, treatment programs and manage risk. This work will involve patients and their carers in the delivery of evidence based interventions/treatments and recovery focused work.
You will need to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to high quality care as well as possessing good therapeutic and interpersonal skills. The post holder will be required to work with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies. You will visit people in their own homes and communities as well as assisting in clinics at the team bases and other community venues.
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.
The Team has close partnerships with Social Services, the voluntary sector and the Primary Care networks.
A full driving licence is essential and a car-leasing scheme is in operation.
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.
We also offer:
* A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, increasing to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service
* Free onsite parking
* Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
* Health and Wellbeing Support
* Various Staff Support Networks
For further information please contact:
Maarit Kiiski, Team Lead 0116 2953150 maarit.kiiski@nhs.net
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
The successful candidate will be responsible for organising and planning own caseload as an autonomous practitioner and monitoring those of other team members to meet patient priorities and service needs .
You would need to demonstrate flexibility and a commitment to high standards of patient care. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential and the ability to work alone and as part of a wider team.
To also work in a multi-disciplinary framework and to prioritise and organise workload effectively and use time management skills which may result in the requirement to readjust plans as situations change/arise such as crisis needs of patients/tribunal reports and Mental Health Act meetings.
The post holder will respond to referrals from Primary care, outpatient and ward settings by undertaking comprehensive assessments of patients who may have complex needs (Mental Health, physical, emotional & psychosocial) using investigative, analytical and clinical reasoning skills to provide accurate reports of their condition and to feed this back to the professionals involved in their care both written and verbally.
To receive clinical supervision on a monthly basis and supervise and co-ordinate less experienced staff and students working with the post holder, ensuring the standards of good practice are consistently achieved through leadership and supervision whilst providing advice, training and education to other members of the MDT/colleagues regarding nursing and evidence based interventions
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.