Job summary
LPFT and Four Counties Primary Care Network are looking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner (registered mental health nurse, occupational therapist or social worker).
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.
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 Stamford and Bourne.
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 2,900 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 arange 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.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner working within specified GP practices to provide specialist mental health within this primary care setting.
To ensure delivery of a person centred approach, What matters to me to all patients that enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
To provide a timely response to referrals and be responsible for advanced clinical care using comprehensive, evidence based, holistic assessment.
Promoting high quality standards and cost effectiveness in all aspects of care delivery.
Act as an autonomous practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates an enhanced knowledge base and advanced clinical skills and competencies.
Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home / community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission
To maintain responsibility and accountability for the provision of a high quality, cost effective complex care based on health assessment of patients referred to the caseload.
Accountable for planning and evaluating the work carried out by self managing and prioritising a caseload of patients according to their health status, who are referred by various agencies including GP, hospital, case managers, social care, and independent sector promoting self-care, self-management and independent living.
Contribute to the work carried out by Neighbourhood colleagues from a MH perspective.
Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care. Referral on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing.
Develop individual evidence based holistic care plans and self-management plans with the patient, carers, relatives, health and social care professionals. Recognising the differing phase of illness and planning for deterioration.
Attends core neighbourhood working meetings as part of an integrated team and works in a collaborative manner with the Neighbourhood Lead.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner working within specified GP practices to provide specialist mental health within this primary care setting.
To ensure delivery of a person centred approach, What matters to me to all patients that enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
To provide a timely response to referrals and be responsible for advanced clinical care using comprehensive, evidence based, holistic assessment.
Promoting high quality standards and cost effectiveness in all aspects of care delivery.
Act as an autonomous practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates an enhanced knowledge base and advanced clinical skills and competencies.
Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home / community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission
To maintain responsibility and accountability for the provision of a high quality, cost effective complex care based on health assessment of patients referred to the caseload.
Accountable for planning and evaluating the work carried out by self managing and prioritising a caseload of patients according to their health status, who are referred by various agencies including GP, hospital, case managers, social care, and independent sector promoting self-care, self-management and independent living.
Contribute to the work carried out by Neighbourhood colleagues from a MH perspective.
Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care. Referral on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing.
Develop individual evidence based holistic care plans and self-management plans with the patient, carers, relatives, health and social care professionals. Recognising the differing phase of illness and planning for deterioration.
Attends core neighbourhood working meetings as part of an integrated team and works in a collaborative manner with the Neighbourhood Lead.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent
- 1st Level Registration (NMC,HCPC)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Evidence of advanced clinical practice at post graduate level to masters or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Non-medical prescriber (or ability to complete within first 12 months in post)
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
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
- Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.
- Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.
- IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.
- Analyse and interpret data and/ or information.
- Statistics.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently throughout the county
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent
- 1st Level Registration (NMC,HCPC)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Evidence of advanced clinical practice at post graduate level to masters or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Non-medical prescriber (or ability to complete within first 12 months in post)
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
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
- Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.
- Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.
- IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.
- Analyse and interpret data and/ or information.
- Statistics.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently throughout 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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
