Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-10665-SP-B
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horizon Centre
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time Band 6 Practitioner 37.5 hrs. per week/part time hours will be considered, to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team based in Lincoln.
Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire so having a means to travel is essential. There will also be an expectation on a Rota basis to support our CCETT south team covering appointments in the south of the county.
We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/ disordered eating and psychosis. Our team looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.
We are an innovative service and pride ourselves in providing training to enhance the care and support we can provide. We welcome clinicians with creative ideas to help continue to develop the service.
Our teams also love cake and snacks, good baking skills is a desirable requirement for this post. We have a good sense of humour and are a very supportive team; Come and join us.
Main duties of the job
The role will include providing Crisis Assessments, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho- education with parents and Carers.
You will work closely with the new CAMHs Mental Health Liaison service and be expected to work a shift pattern on a rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.
Within the team we utilise animal assisted therapy (AAT) and have an established therapy dog within the team. We also welcome the opportunity for further AAT dogs within the team, if you have a dog who you feel would be appropriate so not just an exciting role for you, but for them too.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a high standard of community clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools
- Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota
- Work as part of a team managing referrals for assessment and intensive community treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis or at risk of hospital admission.
- Act as bed co-ordinators for out of county placements.
- Support the Access Assessment of new referrals for in-patient beds.
- Act as lead professional for complex cases within the team.
- Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis.
- Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
- Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children’s services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post graduate professional with current registration.
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training
- Training in Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) or Family systemic practices
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working with individuals in crisis
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
- Experience of managing and developing staff including supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach and Risk Assessment.
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children’s Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development, risk assessment and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Experience of using evidence based practice.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
- Well-developed IT skills
Special requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Lisa de la Perrelle
- Job title
- CCETT North Team Co-ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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