Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking NHS Trust that values compassionate care and teamwork. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic community mental health team, focusing on rehabilitation and recovery. You'll provide high-quality support to individuals in their own homes, ensuring they receive the care they need to achieve independence. With a commitment to staff wellbeing and professional development, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health services. Embrace the chance to be part of an outstanding organization dedicated to transforming care in Lincolnshire.

Qualifications

• Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP.
• Experience working with individuals with mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard clinical care and comprehensive discharge planning.
• Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Enable individuals to develop independent living skills.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Communication skills

Risk assessment

Delegation

Time management

Leadership

Person-centered interventions

Education

Degree level training in clinical practice

Professional Qualification in Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy

Management/Leadership training

Mentorship qualification

Job description

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Post to cover the East of the County and Base to be confirmed within this area.

Town East of the County

Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata for part-time

Salary period Yearly

Closing 21/02/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers - this is not your usual community mental health team!

Do you want to work in a team to provide support in a different way?

We are looking for people full of compassion, enthusiasm and energy to work alongside people in the community to provide high quality care and strong clinical leadership within a countywide community team.

We are an evolving service and our aim to create a co-designed service, where we can work in partnerships with housing, CMHT’s & third sector organisations to meet the rehabilitation and recovery needs of individuals accessing our service. We will provide intensive support to people in their own homes with a view to working towards independence.

The service adopts a psychological approach, to aid understanding of the individual’s distress and, have dedicated space for regular case formulation and reflective practice sessions.

The service runs over 7 days 8-8.

Main duties of the job

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.
2. To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
3. To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
4. To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
5. To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
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 with all members of the MDT and other agencies.

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. Evidences a high level of understanding of the effects of mental illness, alongside an empathetic and empowering approach to meet the individual needs of the patient.
2. Is keen to demonstrate the distinctive contribution and added value the mental health nurse can offer the multi-disciplinary team.
3. Is keen to work closely and collaboratively as a dedicated member of the MDT.
4. Evidences a dynamic, creative and positive approach.
5. Exhibits communication skills that shine through, and are essential for this post.
6. Is trustworthy, self-motivated and organised with time.
7. Has experience and understanding of an array of person-centered, holistic, recovery focused interventions.
8. Evidences an understanding of risk assessments and outcome measurement.
9. Evidence of engaging people, building independence and supporting others to learn new skills.
10. Applicants must possess attitudes and values that reflect the excellent standards we are expecting within the CRT.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice. Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP.
• Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW), Occupational Therapy or other relevant qualification e.g. IAPT qualification and Counselling.
• Management/Leadership training.
• Mentorship or similar qualification in supporting students in practice.
• Post registration training in supervision.

Experience

• Relevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health.
• Experience of managing and developing staff including providing management and/or clinical supervision.
• Experience of using evidence based practice.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Post registration experience of working within adult mental health.

Skills

• Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with people accessing the service & their carers to improve outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.
• 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.

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.