Mental Health Practitioner

**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**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Mental Health Liaison Service.

The team is based in the Leicester Royal Infirmary and provide assessments for over 18's presenting in the acute medical setting with primary or co-morbid mental health problems. We offer an urgent assessment service to people attending the Emergency Departments in times of mental health crisis, and an assessment and liaison service to the medical wards across the 3 UHL sites. The service operates 24/7, days and nights.

The Mental Health Liaison Service experiences a high number of referrals which can be complex and challenging. This provides an excellent opportunity to enhance your practice and develop your nursing skills. We would require an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced RMN, OT or social worker with relevant post registration experience. You would work as part of the established team and would need to demonstrate flexibility and a commitment to high standards of patient care. We are proud of our multi-disciplinary team approach, providing holistic mental and physical healthcare.

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

We also offer:

- A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days.
- 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

**Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)**

The post requires excellent communication skills both written and verbal and the ability to work in a dynamic and busy environment. As always, we expect decision-making to be made in collaboration with our service users and carers with a view to facilitating treatment in the least restrictive environment.

The post holder will be tasked with;
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, across the mental health and acute medical trust
- Working collaborative with service users and families/carers
- Referring on to and liaising with other agencies
- Arrangement of admissions to mental health inpatient services (including MHA assessments) where required
- Be able to work autonomously and as part of a wider team
- Providing general advice and liaison to support the care of patients with mental health needs within the acute hospital setting
- Supporting the education and mental health awareness amongst other healthcare professionals
- Meet local Trust targets in relation to quick response times

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.

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.

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.