CCETT Practitioner

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Lincoln is looking for a Band 5 Practitioner to join the CCETTS Team. You will provide crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people facing acute mental health challenges. The role includes conducting assessments, delivering therapeutic interventions, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate has relevant mental health experience, holds an NMC registration, and is committed to delivering high-quality care. Flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• Degree level education or equivalent experience in mental health.
• NMC Registration required.
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of community clinical care.
• Work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Conduct mental health assessments and develop care plans.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical reasoning

Teamwork

Crisis intervention skills

Education

Degree in mental health or related field

NMC Registration

AHP Registration

SW Registration

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 5 Practitioner to join our award-winning CCETTS Team based in Lincoln. The closing date is 25 January 2026.

Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire, so having a means to travel is essential.

We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/disordered eating and psychosis.

Our team provides an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supports those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.

The role will include providing Crisis Assessments, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho-education with parents and Carers.

You will work closely with CAMHS Mental Health Liaison service.

The successful applicant will be expected to work a shift pattern on a rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.

Responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of community clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools
• Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota.
• Work as part of a team managing referrals for assessment and intensive community treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis or at risk of hospital admission.
• Act as bed co-ordinators for out-of-county placements.
• Support the Access Assessment of new referrals for in-patient beds.
• Act as lead professional for complex cases within the team.
• Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis.
• Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
• Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children's services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
• Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We\'re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you\'re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that\'s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job responsibilities

To provide a high standard of community clinical care ensuring safe and effective treatment and comprehensive care planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools

Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.

Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.

Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.

Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.

Provide a 7 day week, extended service

Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider childrens services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.

Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.

Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.

Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.

Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.

Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.

Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.

Propose changes and developments to service delivery and contribute to policy discussions at both team and service level.

Participate and deliver management and clinical supervision.

Mentor students placed with the service

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including training and continuing professional development.

Maintain knowledge and standards of medicine management through training and supervision

Have an awareness of the mental health act, (MHA) deprivation of liberty, (DOLS), mental capacity act (MCA) and childrens act and how this affects the management of patients at home and as inpatients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in mental health
• NMC Registration
• AHP Registration
• SW Registration
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health
• Experience of using evidence based practice
• Experience of working with children and young people.
• Experience of working with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis

Skills and Competences

• Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
• Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children\'s Services and mental health
• Good understanding of child and adolescent development, risk assessment and risk management of young people in crisis.
• Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Highly developed communication skills
• Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
• Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.
• Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner

Special Requirements

• Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust