Health Care Assistant - Mental Health Urgent Care

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!

Are you passionate about supporting people in crisis? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, team-focused environment? Are you ready to build a meaningful career in mental health? If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are recruiting Health Care Assistants to join our Urgent Care Emergency Access Pathway services, providing vital support to individuals experiencing mental health crises across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

About the Service: You will be part of a dynamic, nursing-led team working across three specialist services: Mental Health Urgent Care Hub (MHUCH) The MHUCH hub is a unit set up during COVID to divert patients from accident and emergency to triage and assess patients with LLR who are experiencing mental health crisis. It is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with band 6 MHPs and band 3 health care support workers.

Main duties of the job

The role of a Health Care Assistant in Mental Health Care is a privileged role, you will provide, care for patients at their most vulnerable during a mental health crisis where patients may have a history of trauma, psychological challenges, and neurodiversity.

You will work along side other secondary mental health services, primary care services as well charitable organisations. You will take referrals via telephone from professional referral services, complete patient's vital signs escalating any concerns to Mental Health Practitioners, supporting patients with psychological and emotional distress in a therapeutic environment. There will be opportunity to up skilling to complete Electro Cardiograph (ECG) and Venepuncture training. this role included driving to patients location either in your own car or in the Mental Health Response Vehicle van for an assessment of their mental health crisis.

The role also includes nursing patients at the Place of Safety Assessment Unit who are brought in under Section 136 and/or S135 (1) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended in 2007).

Mandatory requirement for this role: Minimum of 12 months care experience In receipt of the Care Certificate Full Driving licence with a drivable car including business insurance.

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.