Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 11 months (Maternity cover - ending January 2027)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 274-11844-AC
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Base TBC - Covering East of Lincolnshire
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
EIP Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
We have an opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to join the EIP Team.
If you are a practitioner who is enthusiastic about working with people who have severe mental health problems, this could be the ideal opportunity for you. We are looking for motivated and committed candidates wishing to pursue a career helping people learn to cope with the difficulties associated with Psychosis.
This role will involve working in the East of the County
Main duties of the job
The Early Intervention in Psychosis Team is located within the Adult Community Mental Health Division and our mission is to provide high quality, evidence-based psychological services to adults who live in Lincolnshire and are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
The post will involve liaison with other professions within the mental health service, including Mental Health Nurses, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists, Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologists, Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners, Support Workers, Peer Support Workers and outside agencies.
The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination of care needs, assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence based care to a defined group of service users and their carers within the service catchment area whilst under the guidance of senior staff. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
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
Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.
To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.
To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a care co-ordinator, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
• Behavioural activation and graded exposure
• Teaching problem-solving skills
• Improving sleep
• Recognising and managing emotions
• Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
• Building confidence
• Medication support
To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
To include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.
To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention
To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.
To maintain own continuing professionals development and use reflective practice to evaluate and update current practice.
Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Trust working in a trauma informed way, promoting social inclusion and challenging stigma.
Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role.
You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust. This will only include tasks where you are appropriately trained.
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN, OT or Social Worker core professional background education to diploma/degree level
- Professional registration with NMC, HCPC or other relevant regulator
- Mentorship Module or equivalent (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Management training
- Leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post registration experience of working with people with complex mental and social health presentations involving psychosis
- Experience of multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of using psychological formulation to identify intervention targets
- Substantial experience in identification, assessment and management of risk
- Substantial experience of delivering psychosocial interventions to aid recovery
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within EIP services
- Experience of EIP specialist assessment and interventions
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health
- Understanding of the culture and ethos of EIP services
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills and ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to work and contain with high levels of distress
- Sound knowledge of and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills
- Motivated to maintain personal and professional development with strong CPD record
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate with the ability to lead colleagues and peers .
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
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
- Laura-Anne Doyle
- Job title
- Team Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 421757
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