Community Connector

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is appointing a Community Connector to support adults and older adults within the City West Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, contributing to a broader transformation of community mental health care in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The role involves working under MDT direction to provide high-quality brief interventions, assess risk and needs, and connect service users with voluntary and community sector organisations, with a focus on promoting

Qualifications

• Assess risk and needs of adults and older adults in neighbourhood teams.
• Deliver high-quality individual sessions and provide information to support healthier lifestyles.
• Engage with voluntary and community sector organisations and external agencies.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for individuals referred to the neighbourhood team.
• Develop intervention plans to address needs through brief interventions.
• Link service users to voluntary/community sector organisations and provide engagement support.

Job description

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!

The community connector is a brand-new role within the Leicestershire Partnership Trust, Mental Health Planned Care Services to help support people to achieve better mental health and wellbeing, increasing independence and reducing reliance on services. This role is part of a wider transformation project in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland to redesign community mental health care, with the aim of supporting more people closer to home, reducing the stigma around mental health and enabling existing services to work together more effectively.

Based in the City West Neighbourhood Mental health Team they will link in with a wider integrated team of voluntary sector, local authority, and primary care staff. The post-holder will work with adults and older adults within the neighbourhood teams which is a service supporting individuals with Serious Mental Illness.

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 to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 days after 10 years 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)

The successful candidate will work with adults and older adults within the neighbourhood team which is a service supporting individuals with Serious Mental Illness, under direction of the MDT, the post-holder will be expected to assist in providing a professional, efficient, and seamless service, being the first point of contact for individuals referred into the neighbourhood team consistently delivering high-quality individual sessions to patients providing advice and information to promote healthier lifestyles and recovery. This is a patient facing role and involves assessment of risk and needs, development of appropriate intervention plans to address needs through brief interventions.

The community connector role will link and support service users to voluntary and community sector organisations, based on need and provide support with engagement. As the role is new, the successful applicant needs to be innovative and proactive in engaging service users but also forming links with local external agencies and have an excellent ability to communicate with individuals that may be present with complex needs

The successful candidate will also be expected to demonstrate the Trust’s values in everything you do in the work environment and live up to LPT’s Leadership Behaviour’s and undertake detailed holistic assessments of needs with a view to understanding patients care needs and identification of therapeutic interventions to address need. To develop support plans which are relevant, realistic, and achievable.

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.