Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - Urgent Care Hub
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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!
We are excited to offer an amazing opportunity to dynamic mental health practitioners; Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, to join our CQC Good rated, vibrant, and evolving service. This team includes the Mental Health Urgent Care hub, Mental Health Response Vehicle, and Place of Safety Assessment Unit within the Urgent, Emergency, and Access Care pathway.
The MHUCH hub is a unit set up during COVID to divert patients from accident and emergency to triage and assess patients with LLR who are experiencing a mental health crisis. It is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with band 6 MHPs and band 3 health care support workers.
Shift pattern is 08:00am to 20:30pm and Night shift 20:00pm to 08:00am.
The MHRV is a new service set up in early 2024, it is a mental health ambulance grey in color with the NHS logo inscribed on the side. It provides on-scene triage and assessment for patients in mental health crisis within LLR. It is also staffed by band 6 MHPs and band 3 health care support workers, operating between 12:00pm and 00:30am 7 days a week.
The Place of safety assessment unit is an access unit for patients who are detained under section 136 and 135 under the Mental Health Act 1983. The service offers holding space in a dignified manner for all aged patients within LLR while they wait for an assessment under the Mental Health Act. It is staffed by RMNs and band 3 health care support workers operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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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
- 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
Contact Details
Kadijatou King, kadijatou.king@nhs.net, 0116 225 6847
Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)
As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will act as an independent practitioner within a defined community setting while liaising with other professionals as necessary.
You will provide a specialist assessment of risk to clients coming into contact with the service and social and practical interventions to promote partnerships between health, social, and voluntary sectors and to access the resources of these agencies. Capable of identifying and collaborating with a range of local specialist and non-specialist community resources available to service users and their carers to assist them to maintain quality of life.
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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 behaviors, and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.
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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