Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation programme.
If you are passionate about providing excellent care and support and want to influence new ways of working, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to provide personalised support and intervention to people receiving care from primary care and community services.
You will work with people experiencing a range of mental and emotional challenges to their health and wellbeing ranging from people with lower-level mental health support needs to people with complex and chaotic lifestyles often coexisting with emotional and mental wellbeing challenges.
The post is Monday to Friday, 9-5.
For further information or any questions, please feel free to contact:
Heidi Richardson, Senior Mental Health Practitioner/ Team Manager
01507 608959
heidi.richardson3@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
Mental Wellbeing Support Practitioners work as part of the Integrated Placed Based Team under the supervision of the Senior Mental Health Practitioner to provide personalised support and intervention to people receiving care from primary care and community services.
They will work with people experiencing a range of mental and emotional challenges to their health and wellbeing ranging from people with lower level mental health support needs to people with complex and chaotic lifestyles often coexisting with emotional and mental wellbeing challenges.
The role help primary care support people in acute distress, or making high or inappropriate use of primary care services, complementing the functions of secondary mental health services. The role will provide direct supportive intervention, contributing to assessment, monitoring the efficacy of primary care intervention, undertake planning and reviews and navigation to appropriate community support services. The roles will also provide support where appropriate to people with more severe and enduring mental ill health to step down from secondary health services.
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
Act as a key worker / lead professional to people supported by the team and identified to be of low to medium complexity, under the supervision of a Registered Professional.
Provide a range of structured therapeutic interventions and clinical monitoring in accordance with National guidelines and best-practice within the community.
Provide listening and emotional support to people presenting in aligned primary care practices, contributing to primary care mental health assessment, triage and escalation to secondary services where required.
To assertively engage with people open to the neighbourhood team where their emotional and mental health support needs lead to high intensity use of services or risk of harm abuse or neglect.
To provide a proactive response to people who are frequent callers to surgeries with high levels of anxiety related to their health, for example scheduled check calls and visits to them
To provide a link between primary care and Neighbourhood Practitioners to ensure people with complex or poorly managed physical health needs are referred to neighbourhood working, for holistic assessment and planning.
To build links with statutory mental health services including Crisis Team, to recognise where people are in crisis and need access to specialist secondary support.
To support people to access debt support and benefits advice to address the socio- economic factors which are often at the root of mental health crisis.
Provide support and advice and engage with partner agencies, multi-disciplinary teams and the wider community where appropriate.
To channel and support people in to and potentially awaiting steps2change and where appropriate provide support and follow up to track progress and outcomes. This may include practical support to enable high priority cases to engage with steps2change.
To identify needs and provide navigation to appropriate forms of community and self-help support for people with lower levels of mental health need.
To work with the community and voluntary sector to help develop and sustain community based low level mental health support functions including crisis caf / community hubs and spokes.
Act as facilitator, enabler and advocate for individuals, volunteers and groups developing community capacity and peer support opportunities.
Contribute positively to the achievement of service targets and outcomes.
Use techniques derived from one or more therapeutic models to engage and optimise treatment outcomes and to support their long-term care plan.
Work closely with, support and provide information to service user families / carers and wider community services that support the service-user care pathway.
Participate in the provision of an extended hours service, if required to do so.
Work flexibly across the locality and neighbourhood to support service need.
Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983) and other relevant national and local guidance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as a key worker / lead professional to people supported by the team and identified to be of low to medium complexity, under the supervision of a Registered Professional.
Provide a range of structured therapeutic interventions and clinical monitoring in accordance with National guidelines and best-practice within the community.
Provide listening and emotional support to people presenting in aligned primary care practices, contributing to primary care mental health assessment, triage and escalation to secondary services where required.
To assertively engage with people open to the neighbourhood team where their emotional and mental health support needs lead to high intensity use of services or risk of harm abuse or neglect.
To provide a proactive response to people who are frequent callers to surgeries with high levels of anxiety related to their health, for example scheduled check calls and visits to them
To provide a link between primary care and Neighbourhood Practitioners to ensure people with complex or poorly managed physical health needs are referred to neighbourhood working, for holistic assessment and planning.
To build links with statutory mental health services including Crisis Team, to recognise where people are in crisis and need access to specialist secondary support.
To support people to access debt support and benefits advice to address the socio- economic factors which are often at the root of mental health crisis.
Provide support and advice and engage with partner agencies, multi-disciplinary teams and the wider community where appropriate.
To channel and support people in to and potentially awaiting steps2change and where appropriate provide support and follow up to track progress and outcomes. This may include practical support to enable high priority cases to engage with steps2change.
To identify needs and provide navigation to appropriate forms of community and self-help support for people with lower levels of mental health need.
To work with the community and voluntary sector to help develop and sustain community based low level mental health support functions including crisis caf / community hubs and spokes.
Act as facilitator, enabler and advocate for individuals, volunteers and groups developing community capacity and peer support opportunities.
Contribute positively to the achievement of service targets and outcomes.
Use techniques derived from one or more therapeutic models to engage and optimise treatment outcomes and to support their long-term care plan.
Work closely with, support and provide information to service user families / carers and wider community services that support the service-user care pathway.
Participate in the provision of an extended hours service, if required to do so.
Work flexibly across the locality and neighbourhood to support service need.
Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983) and other relevant national and local guidance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent in Health and Social care
- Assistant Practitioner qualification or willingness/commitment to work towards
Desirable
- Training in delivering group work
- Cavendish Care Certificate
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health conditions
- Worked within a Health & Social Care setting
Desirable
- Previous experience as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent in Health and Social care
- Assistant Practitioner qualification or willingness/commitment to work towards
Desirable
- Training in delivering group work
- Cavendish Care Certificate
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health conditions
- Worked within a Health & Social Care setting
Desirable
- Previous experience as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner
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).
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).
