Company: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Location: Glenfield
Posted: May 4th, 2026
We are excited to offer an amazing opportunity to dynamic mental health practitioners; Registered Mental Health nurses, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, to join our CQC Good rated, vibrant and evolving service. This team includes the Mental Health Urgent Care hub, Mental Health Response Vehicle and Place of Safety Assessment Unit within the Urgent, Emergency and Access Care pathway.
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. Shift pattern is 08:00am to 20:30pm and Night shift 20:00pm to 08:00am.
The MHRV is a new service set up in early 2024, it is a mental health ambulance grey in colour with the NHS log inscribed on the side. It provides on the scene triage and assessment for patients in mental health crisis within LLR. It is also staffed by band 6 MHPs and band 3 health care support workers, operating between 12:00pm and 00:30am 7 days a week.
As a Mental Health Practitioner you will act as an independent practitioner within a defined community setting while liaising with other professionals as necessary.
You will provide a specialist assessment of risk to clients coming into contact with the service and social and practical interventions to promote partnerships between health, social and voluntary sectors and to access the resources of these agencies.
Capable of identifying and collaborating with a range of local specialist and non-specialist community resources available to service users and their carers to assist them to maintain quality of life.
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.
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.
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital
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