Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (Nurse/OT)

NHS; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust is looking for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (Nurse/OT) to join its CAMHS Young Peoples Team, providing specialist mental health services for young people. Applicants should have experience in mental health assessment, care planning, and driving within working hours. The role involves working with diverse teams to ensure optimal care delivery.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist with experience.
• Exceptional skills in mental health assessment and care planning.
• Access to a car and full UK driving license required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for clinical caseload, guiding care and involving the right clinicians.
• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments and risk management.
• Deliver care to individuals with moderate to severe mental illness.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Care planning

Risk assessment and management

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist

Job description

Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (Nurse/OT)

Please note - this position is suitable for Registered Mental Health Nurses or Occupational Therapists only - this is due to current demand for these roles within our team. We currently only have ONE vacancy for 30 hours per week at Band 6.

The CAMHS Young Peoples Team is a specialist mental health service for young people aged up to 18 years old. We provide a service for young people who are adopted, living in care (looked after children) homeless, unaccompanied asylum seeking and those involved with youth justice services.

Within our team we provide comprehensive mental health assessment, treatment and diagnosis for those who present with a moderate to severe mental illness.

We welcome new members to our existing multi disciplinary team (MDT) where we share clinical decision making and formulation for the young people and care networks we work with.

Our MDT consists of Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Therapeutic Social Workers, Mental Health Practitioners, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Forensic Psychologist, Assistant Psychologists and our Administration Team.

We are hoping to attract a keen Mental Health Nurse (band 6) or Occupational Therapist to join our team and enhance our offer to vulnerable children.We are looking for someone who has existing experience working with young people and who has exceptional skills around mental health assessment and care planning and around risk assessment and management.

Main duties of the job

• To have a solid core knowledge of mental illness and associated risk.
• To be responsible for their own clinical caseload and take lead professional role in assessing and guiding care, ensuring the right pathways of care are prescribed and the right clinicians are involved for delivering care.
• To offer comprehensive assessment around mental ill health.
• To offer comprehensive risk assessment, formulation and management.
• To deliver mental health care to individuals who have a diagnosis of moderate to severe mental illness.
• To form part of a wider MDTTo co-facilitate training packages to our partner agencies.

The role requires access to a car during working hours and a full UK driving licence.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.About UsLeicestershire 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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Person Specification

Qualifications

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

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