CCETT Senior Practitioner

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Boston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early access to Psychological TherapY

Competitive annual leave

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Salary sacrifice discounts

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Practitioner to join the CCETTS Team in Boston. You will deliver crisis and enhanced home treatment for children and young people with acute mental health needs, including self-harm and psychosis, aiming to provide alternatives to admission and support discharge from inpatient care.

The role involves 7-day rota coverage, collaboration with CAMHs, and delivering DBT/CBT-based interventions, risk assessments and family/carer

Qualifications

• Postgraduate professional with current registration required.
• Specialised continued professional training in clinical practice preferred.
• Leadership training or DBT/Family systemic practices advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis assessments and 1:1 therapeutic interventions.
• Deliver emotional first aid, group work, and psychoeducation with parents/carers.
• Work with CAMHs liaison services and on a 7-day rota (08:45–19:00).
• Coordinate discharge planning and risk assessment for young people in crisis.

Skills

DBT training

Leadership training

CBT skills

Education

Post graduate professional with current registration

Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice

Job description

Main area CCETT South Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract 12 months (Fixed term or Secondment for 12 months) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available) Job ref 274-12139-SP-A

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Galaxy Suite, The Archway Centre Town Boston Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/09/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Practitioner, to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team based in Boston.

Based at the Galaxy Suite, our service covers areas across the south 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 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.

Main duties of the job

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 treatmentfor 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.

Working for our organisation

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 arange 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 beinlinchina.com to find out more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Get in touch today:

Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Andrew Smith, via email at [emailprotected] or by telephone [phone]

Person specification

Qualifications

• Post graduate professional with current registration
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice
• Leadership training Training in Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) or Family systemic practices

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs.
• Experience of working with individuals in crisis
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
• Experience of managing and developing staff including supervision
• Experience of working with children and young people

Skills and Competences

• Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach and Risk Assessment
• 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.
• Experience of using evidence based practice
• 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.

Special Requirements

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

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

We reserve the right to withdraw or close a vacancy at any time. We will give priority to employees who are at risk.

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.