NHS
Community Mental Health Nurse
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Job Description
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Job summary
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!
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.
Contact Details:
Kirsty Moulin-Clarke | kirsty.moulin@nhs.net | 0116 2255700
Main duties of the job
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, HCSWs, PSW, and Community Connectors.
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
12 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
003885
Job locations
Cedars Centre,Cedar Avenue,South Wigston
,Leicester,LE18 2LA
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE18 2LA
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click on the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job responsibilities
If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click on the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
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
Cedars Centre,Cedar Avenue,South Wigston
,Leicester,LE18 2LA
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE18 2LA
Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Cedars Centre,Cedar Avenue,South Wigston
,Leicester,LE18 2LA
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE18 2LA
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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