Job overview

Grantham CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) Core Team are looking for a colleague to help us in providing an ‘outstanding’ (CQC) specialist mental health service to children, young people and their families.

Are you a creative, passionate and highly motivated individual who can join us in making a difference to children, young people and their families in Lincolnshire who are experiencing mental health challenges? If so, a vacancy has arisen within the Grantham CAMHS hub for a full-time Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join an established multi-disciplinary team.

You will need to demonstrate confidence in working with young people and their families in group settings as well as on a 1:1 basis building therapeutic relationships; strong IT and organisational skills will also be required.

The team is based in Grantham and occasional travel will be required, our core operating hours are 9.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m.

In return we can offer a very welcoming and supportive working environment with a team that celebrates its achievements and is able to continuously learn from what we might do even better. The service can offer a range of learning opportunities for those colleagues who are looking to develop their careers within CAMHS.

Please contact Samantha Edwards Team Manager on 01476 464949 for further information/informal discussion.

Main duties of the job

Under the supervision of a Band 6 Registered Professional, support the provision of a comprehensive multi-disciplinary community mental health service for children and young people, including those in vulnerable groups, through the provision of pre-CAMHS support to universal service and targeted interventions using evidence based pathways reflective of a CYP-AIPT approach to care.  

To provide delegated assessments within defined time standards, deliver planned activities and interventions, comply with appropriate legislation and LPFT policies, facilitate feedback from service users and families, work collaboratively with service users, families, colleagues and stakeholders to support the service user and their family/carer, record accurate and appropriate information within the service user’s clinical notes using the Trust’s clinical information systems, actively contribute to meeting productivity targets and comply with CQC standards. 

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.