Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 274-11757-AC
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Base to be Confirmed - South of the County
- Town
- Sleaford
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers - this is not your usual community mental health team!
Do you want to work in a team to provide support in a different way?
We are looking for people full of compassion, enthusiasm and energy to work alongside people in the community to provide high quality care and strong clinical leadership within a countywide community team.
We are an evolving service and our aim to create a co-designed service, where we can work in partnerships with housing, CMHT’s & third sector organisations to meet the rehabilitation and recovery needs of individuals accessing our service. We will provide intensive support to people in their own homes with a view to working towards independence.
The service will adopt a psychological approach, to aid understanding of the individual’s distress and, have dedicated space for regular case formulation and reflective practice sessions
The service runs over 7 days 8-8.
Base to be confirmed- South of the County.
To discuss this opportunity in more detail or to arrange an informal visit please contact: Hannah Darrant (Team Co-ordinator) on 07966382940 or [email protected]
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatmentand comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers’ and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Community Mental Health Team and with external agencies.
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. 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.
Detailed job description and main 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
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health.
- Experience of managing and developing staff including providing management and/or clinical supervision.
- Experience of using evidence based practice.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience of working within adult mental health
Skills and Competences
Essential criteria
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
- Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with people accessing the service & their carers to improve outcomes..
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Ability to travel independently throughout the county
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice. Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
- Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW), Occupational Therapy or other relevant qualification e.g.IAPT qualification and Counselling
Desirable criteria
- Management/Leadership training
- Mentorship or similar qualification in supporting students in practice
- Post registration training in supervision
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
- Hannah Darrant
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07966382940
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