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!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Registered Professional Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapist to join the Mental Health Central Access Point based at Anstey Frith Building County Hall. The key skills for this role will be the ability to demonstrate excellent ongoing assessment, problem solving and risk assessment skills. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work both autonomously and within a team.
You will receive support both emotional and for your ongoing continuing professional development. We have regular one to ones where you can be transparent, open and honest about matters affecting you and your work.
As part of the team, you will work collaboratively with Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers, OTs and others. The collective support and knowledge is there to enable you to do your work at the best of your capability.
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 as well as support to develop your weaknesses.
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
The Role of a Band 6 Mental Health Central Access Point is to co-ordinate and provide specialist telephone assessments, interventions and expertise to services users in crisis 24/7 per 52 weeks per year over the phone in the community team.
The successful candidate will 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 role will include co ordinating shift working in partnership with Turning Point recovery workers who will need your support and expertise. Working collaboratively to maintain effective communication as a multi-disciplinary team member and with other professionals/agencies to ensure needs are met in a safe and effective manner.
The role is dynamic and requires specialist assessment of risk, the Mental Health Central Access Point is a professional and diverse team to work with and will provide you with lots of experience across the acute sector.
Working with Mental Health Central Access Point gives you opportunities to develop your skills as you will work with the other team urgent care pathway, primary care and secondary care.
You will have opportunities to develop your skills by having students to mentor as well as band 3 to supervise and all leadership training will be provided to support you.
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.