An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced and enthusiastic registered Mental Health Practitioner to join the newly developed Sleaford CMHT. This role will suit a band 5 wishing to develop or someone who already has experience at band 6. Part time hours and flexible working would also be considered for this post.

This role provides the opportunity to be involved in the journey of transforming adult community mental health services within LPFT. It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. The support and interventions delivered are recovery focused, promoting independence and resilience to ensure high quality outcomes for patients and carers.

You will work co-productively within Lincolnshire healthcare including Primary and Secondary care services, social and voluntary care system and patients, and carers. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services within the locality of Sleaford.

The successful applicant will hold a reduced caseload, whilst also taking the lead on facilitating a new group intervention, Relationships and Emotional Skills Group, developed and supported through the Personality and Complex Trauma pathway.

Main duties of the job

The role involves acting as the lead in the care and treatment required to support clients with complex mental health needs and facilitating the new Relationships and Emotional Skills Group.

Main duties of the role will include:

Conduct assessments and to deliver specific therapeutic interventions. Including liaising with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. Risk assessment, and risk management is an essential requirement.

Administer prescribed medication and assess the service user for desired and non-desired effects.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To attend regular MDT meetings with the team manager to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and service user mix.

Supporting clients with their physical health awareness and some health education.

To assess carers and family's needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for cares and families.

Allocate diary time to cover to the Duty rota.

To provide managerial supervision to colleagues in the team.

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 2,800 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Appointed individuals will need to be innovative, compassionate, and motivated, have a passion to deliver individualised, person-centred care. As part of this team, you will be encouraged to grow and develop in your role, and to contribute to the development of the service.

We are focused on supporting individuals towards recovery, enabling them to live their best independent, fulfilled lives, connected to their local communities.

In return we will offer a comprehensive trust induction, regular supervision and appraisal and the opportunity for continued professional development. You will be part of a friendly and supportive multi disciplinary team.

As an employee of the trust, we can offer a number of benefits including relocation package up to �8000 *subject to relocation procedure and eligibility procedure, lease care scheme, home electronic scheme, staff wellbeing support, free eyesight tests and early access to physiotherapy

For detailed information, please see attached Job Description and Person Specific information. If you would like the opportunity to discuss the role, please contact Sleaford team manager, Elle Braithwaite: elle.braithwaite@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 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 RVN or RNLD or RN: 1 st Level Registration (NMC) or dgree or equivalent.
• ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
• Mentorship Module (degree level)
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.

Desirable

• Management training

Experience

Essential

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

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unit 9, The Point

Sleaford

NG34 8GG

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