Senior Mental Health Practitioner-Primary Care

Job summary

LPFT and South Lincolnshire Rural Primary Care Network are looking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner (registered mental health nurse, occupational therapist or social worker). The post will be based in The Munro Medical Centre, Spalding.

We are focused on supporting individuals towards recovery, enabling them to live their best independent, fulfilled lives, connected to their local communities. Person Centred Care is at the heart of everything we do, and these roles will help us drive a joined-up approach across all agencies who are involved in supporting people with mental health needs. Support and interventions are delivered that are recovery focused and promote independence and resilience and deliver individual needs-led, high quality outcomes for patients and carers.

It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. A key output will be to facilitate a more joined up approach to supporting people with mental health needs to achieve their health and wellbeing goals and access a range of community services. Our vision openly welcomes creative and dynamic approaches.

We want to recruit individuals who embraces both change and challenge with a clear focus on delivering outcomes that make a difference and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services in the locality of South Lincolnshire Rural.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be an experienced clinician 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.

Therefore, key elements of the role will include (but not be limited to):

Working as an autonomous practitioner within specified GP practices to provide specialist mental health advice, interventions and training.

Providing specialist clinical knowledge and interventions to service users in a primary care setting. This will include working with the practice team to support people with highly complex mental health needs/serious mental illness and enabling them to achieve good physical health and wellbeing.

Plan, implement, monitor, and review therapeutic interventions with individuals / carers who have serious mental illness through holistic patient centred assessments.

Providing best practice training, mentorship and guidance to mental health practitioners and other members of the primary care/ neighbourhood MDT

Managing a caseload of highly complex cases, 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, working 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.