Senior Acute Care Nurse/Clinician

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Boston; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a qualified mental health professional to join a dynamic Crisis and Home Treatment team in Boston. This role involves providing high-quality care to individuals experiencing acute mental health episodes, ensuring effective assessment and treatment. The position offers a supportive environment with training opportunities and flexible working options. Join a forward-thinking organization that values staff morale and is committed to transforming mental health services, making a real difference in the community. If you are passionate about mental health and ready to contribute to innovative care solutions, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training opportunities

Supportive work environment

Diversity support

Active staff networks

Qualifications

• Qualified RMN, OT, or Social Worker with relevant registration.
• Evidence of specialized continued professional training in clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care needs and implement evidence-based care.
• Work flexibly across a 7-day service providing high standard clinical care.
• Manage caseload and ensure up-to-date care plans and risk assessments.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Education

1st Level Registration (NMC)

Degree in relevant field

Management training

Tools

Assessment tools

Clinical records management

Job description

Main area Boston CRHT Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Flexible working options available Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

Job ref 274-10753-AI-N

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Mental Health Unit, Pilgrim Hospital Town Boston, Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/12/2024 23:59

Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified RMN, OT or Social Worker, to work as a band 6 in the Boston Crisis and Home Treatment team. The team supports people experiencing an acute mental health episode in Boston, Skegness, Spalding and the surrounding areas.

You will need to demonstrate a commitment to providing a high quality standard of care, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a positive attitude towards change and an ability to contribute to the evolving nature of the service. You will receive regular supervision both management and clinical and be expected to provide both to junior members of the team and students. There are training opportunities available to support growth in the role. You will be expected to work shifts (long days) including nights, weekends and bank holidays over a 7 day period, these are both as the shift coordinator, crisis vehicle response team and as part of the home treatment team.

This current vacancy is for 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination of care needs, assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence based care to a defined group of service users and their carers within the service catchment area. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team. The post will involve working within the Crisis Team which includes the S136 Suite, Triage Car and the new Rapid Response Car pilot service.

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 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. 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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. To work within the Section 136 suite, Triage Car and Rapid Response service.
2. To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
3. To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice is of the highest standard of clinical care.
4. To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
5. To ensure up to date care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.
6. Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
7. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
8. To assess carers’ and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
9. Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
10. Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
11. To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Crisis Team and with external agencies.
12. To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and risk assessments, and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
13. To adhere to N.M.C. or other relevant codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
14. To develop clinical practice having due regard to Department of Health and other guidelines.
15. To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Crisis Team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
16. To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
17. To provide Management Supervision to Band 5 and Band 3 staff.
18. To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Crisis Team.
19. Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Crisis Team.
20. Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN or RNLD or RN, S/W, O/T: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• Current Registered Professional
• ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
• Management training

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
• Evidence of continuing professional development

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.

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.