Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Team Leicester

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! An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit. We are looking for candidates who are either a Registered Professional Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who have completed their preceptorship.

The Adult Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team provide a service for adults aged 18 and over who, without this service, would require hospital admission to an acute mental health ward, due to mental health crisis which impacts on the person's ability to cope with day-to-day activities. We work collaboratively with Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers, OTs and other professionals to provide collective support and knowledge.

We understand that you have a life outside of work and therefore offer a range of agile and flexible working opportunities. 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.

Main duties of the job:

• The role of a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment is to provide specialist acute crisis psychiatric interventions and expertise to services users in crisis 24/7 per 52 weeks per year within their own home/residence, providing a gate keeping service to the inpatient wards and community teams.
• To facilitate early discharge (Step Down) where appropriate and provide an effective viable alternative to hospital admission for clients in crisis by developing an individualised approach to the practical and functional needs of the service user.
• The successful candidate will be tasked with performing comprehensive assessments of patient nursing needs, planning, implementing and evaluating care delivery according to changing health care needs.
• Taking responsibility for the care needs of individual and groups of clients/service users.
• To collect, collate and fully accurately report patient information, maintaining accurate complete and contemporaneous nursing records in line with NMC / HCPC and Trust standards, involving clients/service users and carers / relatives in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care.
• The post holder will organise and prioritise their own work and where appropriate the work of the nursing team on a day to day basis.
• Supervising others and participating in their education and development.
• Contribute to the development of services, new ways of working and the implementation of change.

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.