Job summary
An opportunity has become available for three Senior Mental Health Practitioner to provide specialist mental health care as a valued member of the Primary Care Network (PCN) in South Lincolnshire Rural, covering Moulton, Gosberton, Sutterton, Long Sutton, Holbeach, Littlebury, Galletly, Deepings & Abbeyview practices.
The post will be based in the local G.P surgeries and include working with primary and secondary care and the neighbourhood teams to support the mental health transformation and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services.
The Adult Community Mental Health Division are forging ahead in our community transformation plans to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated and tailored to local need, tackling equalities. These roles provide great opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed practitioner to work integrated within the Lincolnshire health, social and voluntary care system. We are focused on supporting individuals towards recovery, enabling them to live their best independent, fulfilled lives, connected to their local communities.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an experienced registered practitioner with proven skills in working with people who have a range of highly complex mental health needs, demonstrating practice that is evidence-based and innovative
Key elements of the role will include (but not be limited to):
To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner working within specified GP practices to provide specialist mental health within this primary care setting.
Plan, implement, monitor, and review therapeutic interventions with individuals / carers who have serious mental illness through holistic patient centred assessments. Providing specialist clinical knowledge and interventions to service users in primary care setting. This will include working with the practice team to support people with highly complex mental health needs/serious mental illness.
Providing best practice training, mentorship and guidance to mental health practitioners and other roles within the primary care/ neighbourhood MDT
Managing a caseload of highly complex/SMI presentations working closely with the locality secondary mental health services, to maintain personalised care plans which focus on what matters to the person.
Attend core neighbourhood working meetings as part of an integrated team and works in a collaborative manner with the Neighbourhood Lead.
Facilitate, participate, and optimises case conferences / multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings.
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 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
The role gives excellent opportunity for co-production with Lincolnshire health, social and voluntary care system, patients, and carers. This not only ensures appropriate, and needs led outcomes for the patients, but also offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working and ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services.
A comprehensive trust induction will be offered and opportunities for CPD. Management and Clinical supervision are provided regularly.
For detailed information relating to this role, please see the Job Description and Person Specific information.
If you would like the opportunity to discuss, please contact Emma Barrass, service manager: emma.barrass@nhs.net or Louise Johnson, neighbourhood lead:louise.johnson1@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role gives excellent opportunity for co-production with Lincolnshire health, social and voluntary care system, patients, and carers. This not only ensures appropriate, and needs led outcomes for the patients, but also offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working and ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services.
A comprehensive trust induction will be offered and opportunities for CPD. Management and Clinical supervision are provided regularly.
For detailed information relating to this role, please see the Job Description and Person Specific information.
If you would like the opportunity to discuss, please contact Emma Barrass, service manager: emma.barrass@nhs.net or Louise Johnson, neighbourhood lead:louise.johnson1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent
- 1st level registration RMN
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Non-medical prescriber (or ability to complete within first 12 months in post)
- Evidence of advanced clinical practice at post graduate level to masters or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Management or leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Post-Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs
- Experience of working autonomously within a senior position
- Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills
- Experience of working across organisations
- Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
- Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality
- Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries
- Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
Desirable
- Experience of leading service change/development/transformation
- Experience of leading training sessions
- Experience of neighbourhood working
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent
- 1st level registration RMN
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Non-medical prescriber (or ability to complete within first 12 months in post)
- Evidence of advanced clinical practice at post graduate level to masters or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Management or leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Post-Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs
- Experience of working autonomously within a senior position
- Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills
- Experience of working across organisations
- Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
- Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality
- Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries
- Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
Desirable
- Experience of leading service change/development/transformation
- Experience of leading training sessions
- Experience of neighbourhood working
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
