Job summary
- Main area
- Maple Lodge
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 274-11733-AI
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maple Lodge
- Town
- Boston
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Mental Health Support Worker
Band 3
Job overview
Join Our Team at Maple Lodge – Where Kindness Meets Purpose
Are you passionate about mental health care?
Looking for a challenge and a chance to truly make a difference?
Maple Lodge is a friendly, purpose-built 15-bed rehabilitation unit in Boston, supporting adults with enduring mental health needs.
We help individuals regain independence, improve quality of life, and live well in their communities.
We’re proud of our compassionate, values-led team. We work collaboratively, with kindness and respect at the heart of everything we do.
Our service is actively engaged in the Culture of Care project, a national initiative that brings innovation through culturally informed, autism-sensitive, and trauma-informed approaches to care.
As part of our team, you’ll:
- Deliver high-quality, person-centred care
- Support recovery and social inclusion
- Be part of an innovative, forward-thinking service
- Work in a supportive environment where everyone is valued
If you’re ready to be part of something meaningful, we’d love to hear from you.
Applicants must meet the job specification and be able to work flexible hours including nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
For more information, please contact: Melanie Hutchinson, Ward Manager
Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of a registered nurse participate in the development, implementation and maintenance of high-quality care within a ward environment, through involvement in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care.
Working for our organisation
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
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. As well as all the usual NHS benefits, LPFT also provides an enhanced benefits package including early access to psychological support and physiotherapy, support with transport and travel, financial wellbeing packages and discounts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details regarding the position.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT
- NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent
- NVQ level 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards achievement.
Desirable criteria
- Certificate in Community Mental Health ECDL
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a HCSW grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting.
Desirable criteria
- Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent
Skills and Competences
Essential criteria
- Effective communication with service user, other members of the team and outside agencies.
- IT skills.
- Skills related to Physical healthcare interventions such as urine analysis, phlebotomy, TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melanie Hutchinson
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01205 354900
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Welton House
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH
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