Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time Band 5 Practitioner 37.5 hrs. per week/ part time hours will be considered to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team in the North of the County, based in Lincoln.
Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire so having a means to travel is essential.
We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/ disordered eating and psychosis. Our team looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care
Main duties of the job
The role will include providing Crisis Assessments with support from our Band 6 Practitioners, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho- education with parents and Carers.
You will work closely with the new CAMHs Mental Health Liaison service
Within the team we utilise animal assisted therapy (AAT) and have an established therapy dog within the team.
The successful applicant will be expected to work a shift pattern on a Rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.
We are an innovative service and pride ourselves in providing training to enhance the care and support we can provide. We welcome clinicians with creative ideas to help continue to develop the service.
Our teams also love cake and snacks, good baking skills is a desirable requirement for this post. We have a good sense of humor and are a very supportive team; Come and join us!!!
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
To provide a high standard of community clinical care ensuring safe and effective treatment and comprehensive care planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools
Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.
Provide a 7 day week, extended service
Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider childrens services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.
Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.
Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.
Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.
Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.
Propose changes and developments to service delivery and contribute to policy discussions at both team and service level.
Participate and deliver management and clinical supervision.
Mentor students placed with the service
Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including training and continuing professional development.
Maintain knowledge and standards of medicine management through training and supervision
Have an awareness of the mental health act, (MHA) deprivation of liberty, (DOLS), mental capacity act (MCA) and childrens act and how this affects the management of patients at home and as inpatients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of community clinical care ensuring safe and effective treatment and comprehensive care planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools
Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.
Provide a 7 day week, extended service
Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider childrens services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.
Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.
Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.
Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.
Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.
Propose changes and developments to service delivery and contribute to policy discussions at both team and service level.
Participate and deliver management and clinical supervision.
Mentor students placed with the service
Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including training and continuing professional development.
Maintain knowledge and standards of medicine management through training and supervision
Have an awareness of the mental health act, (MHA) deprivation of liberty, (DOLS), mental capacity act (MCA) and childrens act and how this affects the management of patients at home and as inpatients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in mental health
- NMC Registration
Desirable
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health.
- Experience of using evidence based practice
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of working with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in mental health
- NMC Registration
Desirable
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health.
- Experience of using evidence based practice
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of working with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
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).
