Community Connector

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!

The community connector is a brand‑new role within the Leicestershire Partnership Trust, Mental Health Planned Care Services to help support people to achieve better mental health and wellbeing, increasing independence and reducing reliance on services. This role is part of a wider transformation project in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland to redesign community mental health care, with the aim of supporting more people closer to home, reducing the stigma around mental health and enabling existing services to work together more effectively.

Based in the City West Neighbourhood Mental Health Team they will link in with a wider integrated team of voluntary sector, local authority, and primary care staff.

The post‑holder will work with adults and older adults within the neighbourhood teams – a service supporting individuals with Serious Mental Illness. Under the direction of the MDT, the post‑holder will assist in providing a professional, efficient and seamless service, being the first point of contact for individuals referred into the neighbourhood team. The role involves delivering high‑quality individual sessions to patients, providing advice and information to promote healthier lifestyles and recovery, assessing risk and needs, developing appropriate intervention plans through brief interventions, and linking and supporting service users to voluntary and community sector organisations as needed.

As the role is new, the successful applicant needs to be innovative and proactive in engaging service users, forming links with local external agencies, and communicating effectively with individuals who may have complex needs. The successful candidate will also be expected to demonstrate the Trust’s values, live up to LPT’s Leadership Behaviours and undertake detailed holistic assessments of needs to identify therapeutic interventions.

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We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

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, implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the 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.

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.

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