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!
Are you looking for an opportunity to support those experiencing mental health crisis?
Do you work well with people and teams?
Do you want an opportunity to make a difference?
If you have answered yes to those questions, we want to hear from you as we have exciting opportunities to work as a Health Care Assistant within our Urgent Care Emergency Access Pathway services based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit.
Service Overview
We are a nursing led service and we care for patients in mental health crisis across our three services; Mental Health Urgent Care Hub (MHUCH), Mental Health Response Vehicle (MHRV) and Place of Safety Unit (PSAU). We operate a 24 hour service across the 7 days of the week including bank holidays.
MHUCH and PSAU operating hours 08:00am to 20:30pm Long days; 20:00pm to 08:30am night shift.
MHRV operating hours 12:00pm to 00:30am
The ideal candidate will hold personal values that align with our Trust Values:
* We are Compassion: we care for our communities most vulnerable people giving them a space to be heard and seen.
* We are Respectful: we see every patient as a as an individual, work with them to build strong relationships across teams and communities.
* We demonstrate Integrity: we do what we say we will do, we do not promise what is not within out scope of practice.
* We are Trustworthy: we hold ourselves accountable for what we say and do for our patients and community.
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 with length 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
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
* Please note we do NOT offer sponsorship for this role*
This Job includes taking referrals from appropriate sources, talking to other professionals on the phone use acceptable telephone etiquette. Completing patient's vital signs observations, welcoming and looking after patients in mental health crisis to the hub and place of safety. Visiting patient's home addresses with Mental Health Practitioners for assessment and triage of patients in mental health crisis. Documenting observations, interactions with patients, their family/friends and care teams in patient's records. Working within a multidisciplinary team and other voluntary section services. Completing referrals on behalf of Mental Health Practitioners for patients.
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.
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