Community Mental Health Practitioner

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced and enthusiastic registered Mental Health Nurse to join the Sleaford Community Mental Health Team.

This role provides the opportunity to be involved in the journey of transforming adult community mental health services within LPFT. It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. The support and interventions delivered are recovery focused, promoting independence and resilience to ensure high quality outcomes for patients and carers.

You will work co-productively within Lincolnshire healthcare including Primary and Secondary care services, social and voluntary care system and patients, and carers. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services within the locality of Sleaford.

Main duties of the job

The role involves acting as the lead in the care and treatment required to support clients with complex mental health needs and facilitating the new Relationships and Emotional Skills Group.

Main duties of the role will include:

1. Conduct assessments and deliver specific therapeutic interventions, including liaising with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.
2. Have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. Risk assessment and risk management is an essential requirement.
3. Administer prescribed medication and assess the service user for desired and non-desired effects.
4. Delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients' care, where appropriate.
5. Attend regular MDT meetings with the team manager to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts, and service user mix.
6. Support clients with their physical health awareness and some health education.
7. Assess carers' and families' needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for carers and families.
8. Allocate diary time to cover the Duty rota.
9. Provide managerial supervision to colleagues in the team.

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 2,900 staff and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge, or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Lucy Alder, via email at Lucy.alder2@nhs.net or by telephone 01522458312

Person Specification

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Skills and Competences

• Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients' care, where appropriate.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
• Highly developed communication skills.

Qualifications

• RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent.
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
• Currently Registered Nurse.
• Management training.

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel independently across the county.

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.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust