Job overview

Carer Champion – Inpatient Rehabilitation Service

Do you have a special interest in supporting family members to better enable them to understand their relative’s mental illness and give carers more information about the support they are entitled to under the Care Act 2015? To work collaboratively with carers, patients, and teams?

LPFT’s inpatient rehabilitation service is recruiting a substantive, full-time carer’s champion..

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team. The successful candidate will work closely with other Carer Champions across the division and organisation to support families and carers whose loved ones have been admitted to our inpatient wards at Discovery House and Maple Lodge in Boston. The role will support the teams to ensure that relatives and carers are fully involved in patient care, ensuring relatives are part of the patient pathway and working in conjunction with the relevant team to signpost carers and relatives to appropriate support and information. We are looking for someone who can understand and relate to the needs of family and carers using LPFT inpatient services and who is willing to work flexibly to attend carer support and education groups alongside carers.

If you enjoy working differently and want to make a difference in people’s lives, then this may be the opportunity for you.

It is essential that you are able to travel independently.

Main duties of the job

Support and encourage the carer voice in patient care and carer experience. Ensuring Carers are aware of and invited to participate in engagement events and support groups.

Provide information on health promotion to carers and ensure that any health and wellbeing needs are identified and appropriately addressed through signposting to relevant services. To provide or signpost carers to information about mental illness, treatment and other relevant information and resources in the community. To liaise with other colleagues and organisations for and on behalf of carers and, where relevant, ensure carers are signposted to an advocacy service. To liaise regularly with the Head of Carers and Relatives to ensure up-to-date information is being disseminated and seek clinical supervision with them to ensure professional development. Ensure carers receive appropriate and timely information. To provide emotional and practical support to carers. This will be achieved in various ways, but particularly by providing individual contact with carers and ensuring Carer Leads are doing the same.

Promoting Carer Awareness

Champion carer statutory rights and needs and ensure that any national and local information is cascaded to colleagues and local teams/service areas. Support initiatives aimed at promoting carer identification, such as the Triangle of Care and John’s Campaign.

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 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, 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.