Overview
Are you an experienced mental health professional or a band 5 practitioner looking for a developmental role ready to embrace holistic approaches to providing care for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties? You will learn and embed person centred interventions such as Open Dialogue and the Maastricht approach, work within a team that fosters patient centred care and collaboration, and join the Spalding locality team as a Community Mental Health Practitioner.
You will coordinate your own caseload, provide a range of specialist mental health assessments and evidence based recovery focused interventions, and work collaboratively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and complex presentations, their carers and other agencies, putting the person at the centre of all you do to enable them to access mental health specialist support when and where they need it.
This is an exciting time to join the trust. LPFT is progressing community transformation plans to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated and tailored to local need and targeting health inequalities.
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 manage caseload and service delivery in accordance with and in order 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 behavior. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk. To assess carer and family’s needs and develop, implement and review programs of support for cares and families. To maintain accurate and timely clinical records. To adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics, as well as associated legislation. To develop clinical practice having due regard to NICE guidelines and other best practice guidance.
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. The Trust employs around 2,900 staff and serves a population of over 768,400. Our people lie at the heart of everything we do. We are proud of our Care Quality Commission rating and staff survey standings.
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.
For detailed information, please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you would like the opportunity to discuss the role, please contact Louise Smith, Locality Team Manager, l.smith143@nhs.net.
Responsibilities
* Coordinate your own caseload and provide specialist mental health assessments and recovery focused interventions.
* Work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and complex presentations, their carers and other agencies.
* Put the person at the centre of all you do to enable access to mental health specialist support when and where needed.
* Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet identified needs and manage risk.
* Assess carers and families’ needs and develop, implement and review programs of support.
* Maintain accurate and timely clinical records and adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics.
* Develop clinical practice with emphasis on NICE guidelines and other best practice guidance.
Requirements / Qualifications
* Experience as a mental health professional or Band 5 practitioner seeking a developmental role.
* Ability to provide high standard of clinical care with strong organisational skills and prioritisation.
* Commitment to patient-centred care, collaboration, and high quality service delivery.
* Ability to work within a Multi-Disciplinary Team and with carers and other agencies.
* Understanding of and commitment to professional conduct, ethics and relevant legislation.
* Willingness to engage with Open Dialogue and Maastricht approaches where applicable.
* Commitment to ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
Benefits
* Comprehensive trust induction, regular supervision and appraisal, and opportunities for continued professional development.
* Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment.
* Flexible working options and a range of staff benefits (e.g., lease car scheme, home electronics scheme, staff wellbeing support, eyesight tests, early access to physiotherapy).
* Inclusive and supportive culture with staff networks and opportunities for career progression.
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