The CYP Mental Health Liaison team are a new service that was introduced in March 2023 working closely CAMHS Crisis and enhanced treatment service (CCETT) and the CYP Eating Disorder Service.

The role of the team is to support children and young people (CYP) accessing our medical areas at the hospital, including A& E, paediatrics, and the hospital wards at Lincoln County hospital (LCH) and Pilgrim hospital Boston. (PHB) with a priority of timely face to face assessments as well as well as supporting YP admitted to a ward with a mental health need. We are also building links with ULHT teams with a view to improved joint working and mental health training to their staff.

We are looking for a enthusiastic and dynamic clinical lead for the team who will work closely with the team co-ordinator and support teams across Lincoln and Boston. The clinical lead will provide leadership and expertise, support the team with complex cases and provide formulation and supervision working with other CYP services and the network of clinical leads. The clinical lead post will contribute towards the development of the team and offer training to other services.

This new clinical lead post will be based in Lincoln or Boston and post holders are expected to travel across the county to support both teams. We welcome flexible working requets and streched hours. There will be opportunities to provide some clinical cover to the teams over periods of leave or training.

Main duties of the job

Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the clinical dimensions of service development.

Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.

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 by linking them with evidence based treatment pathways.

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

For full details, please refer to the job description and person specification.

• Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning.
• To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
• Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
• To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making, with other professionals and agencies.
• To support transitions of young people to adult services.
• To adhere to N.M.C. or other professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
• To develop clinical practice having due regard tor the NICE Guidelines in respect of treatment for mental health disorders in children and adolescents.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification in relevant field and accredited member of BACP or equivalent level of accreditation with NMC, UKCP, CPC, IPTUK, NCS
• Mentorship Module or equivalent teaching/ supervision training
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in relevant clinical practice

Desirable

• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice (Msc or Degree)
• Post graduate qualification in leadership and management (or considerable experience in this area)

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience of working with young people with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both the community/in-patient. Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Assessment tools
• Experience of working within a Hospital environment
• Working within a multi-disciplinary approach to healthcare
• Distributed leadership modelling
• Working with people who have suicidal ideation
• Experience of teaching in a formal or informal setting Political astuteness

Skills & Competences

Essential

• Excellent assessment and risk management skills
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
• Knowedge of current agenda and guidance towards Mental Health forward view
• Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users, carers and key stakeholders to improve outcomes
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
• Ability to engage with patients experiencing High Expressed Emotion
• Experience of working with patients who have self harming behaviours
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act and MCA (2005)
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Basic IT skills

Desirable

• Health Liaison - Working collaboratively with other health and social care providers oBudget management oData analysis oConflict resolution

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Flexible

Lincoln

LN1 1FS

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