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It is an exciting time for Mental Health Services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland as our Community Mental Health offer is undergoing a major transformation. We have an excellent opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join our Community Neighbourhood Team within the Directorate of Adult Mental Health.
We are looking for people who can develop relationships and work in an integrated way with a range of practitioners from outside of the NHS including Primary Care, Social Care and the Voluntary-Community sector. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, driven, and positive with a commitment to working with recovery principles and interventions within our busy team.
The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important 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. The team environment is transformative and very supportive, and we always help each other out.
The team is currently going through a management of change and will be divided between Blaby/Lutterworth and Oadby/Wigston/Harborough.
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
• 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 holder will be working with Mental Health in a Community setting and will manage your own diary and the demands of a caseload of service users. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, carrying out duties autonomously and using your own initiative, Demonstrating a commitment to a recovery approach and working collaboratively with the people who use our services.
The successful candidate will work as care co-ordinator for service users with a variety of mental health problems, providing high quality care in a community setting, promoting and ensuring recovery focused care and social inclusion. You will be working in partnership with services to aid the recovery of patients, both within LPT and the voluntary sector.
You will be involved in and chair regular Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings. These meetings allow you to use your clinical knowledge and expertise to support your colleagues. You will have the opportunity to use your clinical assessment skills for new patients referred to the service, which will be discussed in the MDT for a team decision on the outcome. As a team we pride ourselves in working jointly with a range of disciplines within the team including Psychologists, OT, Consultant Psychiatrist, HCSW’s, PSW, and Community Connectors.