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Case Manager – Registered Mental Health Nurse
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Main area Assertive Outreach Team Grade 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 173-51426-EDRS
Site Assertive Outreach Team Town Leeds Salary £39,959 – £48,117 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59
Job overview
**Due to the nature of this role and the needs of our service users, this post is subject to a Genuine Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010. Applications are therefore restricted to male candidates only.**
This requirement has been identified to ensure the privacy, dignity, and wellbeing of the individuals we support and to maintain an appropriate gender balance within the team to meet service user needs.**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced mental health nurse to join the Leeds Assertive Outreach Teams (AOT).
- To work as a member of the Assertive Outreach team in providing a city-wide service for patients with highly complex, severe and persistent mental health problems seven days per week.
- To provide day to day co-ordination of the team, as required.
- To act as case manager, responsible for the management of a caseload including assessments as well as the development, implementation and evaluation of care.
- To ensure an effective learning environment for students and other staff, regardless of the professional background.
- To carry continuing responsibility for the setting and monitoring of standards of care in line with Clinical Governance requirements.
- To promote nursing values and interventions in the MDT and with service users.
- To establish and maintain good working relationships with other community teams/agencies within the statutory voluntary and private sector.
Main duties of the job
The teams provide a city wide seven-day extended hours service, with working hours of Monday – Friday 9am-8pm and weekends and Bank Holidays 9am – 5pm. Due to the area the service covers being a car driver is essential.
Ideally, you will have had community and care coordination experience but this is not essential and you will be supported to gain confidence in this. You will need to have experience of working with psychosis, and a genuine interest in supporting people experiencing severe and enduring complex mental health problems who are difficult to engage, may have a dual diagnosis and a history of risk. You will need to demonstrate innovative and creative ways to working with service users and have knowledge of working within the mental health act.
Through the MDT and within a team approach structure you will offer individual packages of care, therefore good communication and team working skills are necessary. Working with a smaller caseload of twelve service users as a full-time worker. The MDT team will support you to deliver quality care to service users both in the community informally, subject to CTOs, and service users who require hospital admission.
We would welcome any interested applicants to have a discussion either over the phone or to come and visit the team to find out more.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 – 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.net
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Have a nursing (mental health) qualification and registration with the NMC.
Skills
- Significant post registration experience of working with service users who have mental health difficulties who experience psychosis.
- Community post requiring a car driver with a valid driving licence and business insurance.
Experience
- Experience of co-ordinating care for people with complex mental health needs, or a strong interest in this.
Knowledge
- Experience of delivering a range of different interventions for people with experience psychosis.
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 relating to community work.
Values Based
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
All new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust’s commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorize Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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