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!
Community Psychiatric Nurse - Band 6
An exciting opportunity has become available to work within Melton Adult Community Mental Health Team for a Mental Health Practitioner.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic team player, to join this growing and developing team- which is undergoing transformation to the new Neighbourhood ways of working.
The team will be able to offer you on-going CPD opportunities, reflective practice space within a fun and supportive team environment.
Here at Melton we have cohesive and fun team who make coming to work a pleasure whilst ensuring the highest standards of care are at the heart of everything we do.
You must be a qualified Mental Health Nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council/Professional Health Council.
You must hold a full UK driving licence and be able to use a car for work purposes.
We also offer:
* A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
* 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
For further information or to discuss this post please contact Team Lead; Charlotte Hings on 01664855858
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
This post will include assessing new people referred to our service and working with an allocated caseload of existing service users providing low level psychological interventions and liaising with other professionals to coordinate their care under the Care Programme Approach.
You will need to be able to safely administer medication in a community setting, engage in medicines management and physical health monitoring.
You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to provide clear information around health promotion and psychoeducation to people who use our services as well as providing educational input and supervision to nursing students and junior colleagues.
You will need to be able to work flexibly and collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team and other agencies. You will need to be able to assess risk dynamically and work to safeguard our clients at al times. You will work in our Team Base and in people's homes.
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.