Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Boston Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The role covers the large service catchment area; therefore, a full manual driving license is essential. You will not be expected to use your vehicle for work, the team has access to pool cars. The service runs over a 24/7 period, so you will work long days across 7 days a week, with the expectation of working nights.
The team provides assessment to those experiencing acute mental illness and, if indicated, short-term home treatment in a suitable setting. The team refers to several longer-term services; if required, the post holder would identify this. You will provide professional advice to service users and carers as well as support to other agencies and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team. You will be expected to have good documentation skills and be able to confidently use the Clinical Information System- Rio.
To manage risk, individuals will be Breakaway Trained. The role will include coordinating daily visits to other team members on duty that day. You will be expected to effectively triage referrals to the team over the phone within a time frame. As part of your role, you will be expected to respond to the Crisis Vehicle response, as well as for the management and supervision of junior staff members and a mentor for students.
Job locations
Pilgrim Hospital, Sibsey Road, Boston, PE21 9QS
Details
Date posted: 10 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata for part-time
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 274-11489-AI-D
Job responsibilities
* 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 flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
* To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team are of the highest standard of clinical care.
* To manage case-load and service delivery by and to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
* 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.
* Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
* 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.
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.
UK Registration and DBS
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Pilgrim Hospital, Sibsey Road, Boston, PE21 9QS
Employer website: https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/
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