CCETT Senior Practitioner

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Boston; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking motivated individuals to provide crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people facing acute mental health challenges. The role involves conducting crisis assessments, utilizing therapeutic techniques, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure holistic care. This position operates on a shift basis covering 7 days a week, and applicants must have UK NHS experience to be considered. Flexible working options and various training opportunities are available.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and promotion opportunities

Diversity and inclusion support

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health crisis intervention.
• Ability to work flexibly across locations.
• Knowledge of relevant child health legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard community clinical care.
• Rapid response to urgent mental health presentations.
• Manage referrals for intensive community treatment.

Skills

Crisis Assessments

DBT skills

CBT skills

Emotional First Aid

Collaboration

Education

UK NHS experience

Tools

Assessment tools

Job description

Overview

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 looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting 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 our CAMHs Mental Health Liaison service.

You will be expected to work a shift pattern on a rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45‑19:00hrs.

Responsibilities

• 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 inpatient 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 take 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 including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
• Provide a professional, non‑stigmatising service to children/young people and families/carers.
• 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.
• Help support and develop other staff in the team and provide supervision/line management.
• Be able to travel independently and work flexibly across the county to support the service, from a designated base.
• Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.
• Participate in management and clinical supervision.
• Manage case‑load and service delivery in accordance with, and in order to contribute towards, the Service/Trust productivity requirements including waiting times.
• Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, 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 Children’s Act and how this affects the management of patients at home and as inpatients.

Qualifications & Conditions

As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. To pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.

About Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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.