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!

We have an exciting opportunity for multiple vacancies across our two Acute Step Down Wards and our Rehab HDU Ward at The Willows in the Humberstone area of Leicester.

Cedar, Sycamore and Maple Ward are male and female wards where service users are usually transferred from wards at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit until they can be safely discharged. We support people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties to gain or regain their confidence and skills in everyday activities which promotes a positive approach to long-term recovery.

The ideal candidate will be caring, hard working and passionate about working in Adult Mental Health.

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

Main duties of the job

It's an exciting time to join LPT as we are at the start of a five-year transformation journey to ensure we provide excellent services for patients with mental ill health and support people towards recovery and resilience. Its a challenging and fulfilling environment with multi-disciplinary teamwork at its core.

For this role you would need to demonstrate effective assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation of care given to service users.

You will be providing specialised, enhanced rehabilitation and recovery interventions.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate service users care packages in line with the Care Programme.

You will work collaboratively with Service Users, Families/Carers and the Multi Disciplinary Team to provide a recovery-orientated approach and to foster autonomy and help service users to take an active part in treatment decisions and support self management.

You should be motivated to work in a service that offers a recovery-orientated approach, delivering person-centred care through collaboration involvement.

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.