Mental Health Practitioner - Central Access Point

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust; England; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to provide crisis assessments and interventions in a collaborative team environment. This role requires a registered professional in mental health, social work, or occupational therapy. The candidate will work autonomously and with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best care for service users. The position offers opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Ongoing professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Empathetic, patient, understanding with excellent listening skills.
• Strong assessment, decision-making and risk assessment abilities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate shift working in partnership with Turning Point recovery workers.
• Maintain effective communication as a multi-disciplinary team member.
• Conduct specialist assessments of risk and provide preventative interventions.
• Develop skills by mentoring students and supervising Band 3 staff.

Skills

Empathetic

Patient

Excellent listening skills

Strong assessment abilities

Decision-making

Risk assessment

Education

Registered professional (Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist)

Job description

Overview

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.

Role

The role of a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner at Central Access Point is to co-ordinate and provide specialist telephone assessments, interventions and expertise to service users in crisis 24/7, 52 weeks per year over the phone in the community team. The successful candidate will collect, collate and 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.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate shift working in partnership with Turning Point recovery workers who will need your support and expertise.
• Work 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.
• Conduct specialist assessments of risk and provide preventative and responsive interventions as part of the Mental Health Central Access Point.
• Be part of a dynamic, professional and diverse team and gain experience across the acute sector.
• Develop skills by mentoring students, supervising Band 3 staff, and engaging in leadership training provided to support you.
• Demonstrate excellent ongoing assessment, problem-solving and risk assessment skills; work autonomously and within a team.

Qualifications and Skills

• Registered professional (Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist).
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Empathetic, patient, understanding with excellent listening skills.
• Strong assessment, decision-making and risk assessment abilities.

Mental Health Central Access Point (MHCAP)

Mental Health Central Access Point (MHCAP) is a 24-hour telephone service based at Anstey Frith House, County Hall in Glenfield, Leicester. This is a platform for callers who have used the NHS 111 option and selected option 2 for Mental Health Support. The key skills for this role include ongoing assessment, problem solving and risk assessment, with support to work both autonomously and within a team.

Benefits, Flexibility and How to Apply

We are looking for people who are empathetic, patient and have excellent listening skills, with support for ongoing continuing professional development. We may close the advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. 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, information for applicants and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed.