NHS
Band 6 Community Nurse
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Job Description
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- 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 create person centred, collaborative care plans.
- To deliver mental health care to individuals who have a diagnosis of moderate to severe mental illness.
- To form part of a wider MDT To co-facilitate training packages to our partner agencies.
- Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.
- Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.
Job summary
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) 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.
Within the team we can offer support to further develop skills in therapeutic models of care.
Contact Details- Kayleigh Lord, kayleigh.lord@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
The role requires access to a car during working hoursand 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 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.
Details
Date posted
21 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
003529
Job locations
Westcotes House - CAMHS Young People's Team
Westcotes Drive
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 0QU
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
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Job responsibilities
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Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
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 details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Westcotes House - CAMHS Young People's Team
Westcotes Drive
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 0QU
Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Westcotes House - CAMHS Young People's Team
Westcotes Drive
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 0QU
Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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