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!

Acute Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Inpatient Service are looking to welcome band 4 Registered Nurse Associates. As a member of the team the post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Mental Health Nurses, Activity Co-ordinators, Occupational Therapist, Psychology and Consultant Psychiatrists.

The inpatient teams provide a service to people experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis who require a period of assessment to determine the required interventions using the least restrictive environment to facilitate recovery. The service works closely with Urgent Care colleagues and services to support early discharge and with other parts of the mental health services as well as third sector providers, so great communication skills are essential. Our inpatient teams are a 24hr service working shift patterns of long days and nights, although we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.

In return we offer:

• A robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support.
• Opportunities to progress your career with structured learning that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals.
• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days.
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care to meet the immediate needs and on-going needs of the service users and their carers to participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed. To evaluate patient progress and discuss with senior clinicians through feedback discussions and multi-disciplinary meetings professionals.

To contribute to the team and service development, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery to provide best patient care in relation to resources available and evidenced-based practice, with the assistance of the registered nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Ability to identify/manage and take action to minimise or eradicate risk to patients. Ensure safe, appropriate, and effective provision and resource management.

Plan and document the patients progress on the Trusts information systems. You will have experience of the use of various IT applications including Microsoft.

To maintain a professional standard of record keeping which is accurate and current, in line with professional codes, service standards and team specific requirements.

Demonstrate excellent clinical and commination skills. You will need to be proactive, innovative, and able to provide quality care, putting the service users and carers at the heart of everything you do.

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 serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

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 are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

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.