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Job overview

Are you seeking an opportunity to join a forward thinking Trust, with great career opportunities and excellent training, where you can be challenged but rewarded, with a focus on providing an excellent standard of care to really make a difference everyday - if the answer is yes then you are the person we are looking for to join our outstanding team

The Lincoln Community Mental Health Team is offering a rare and exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker to join the Lincoln North CMHT based at Carholme Court.

The role will compliment the current team who provide assessment, treatment, and support to members of our community who have Mental health related difficulties that are severe and enduring in nature.

The role will involve working alongside CMHT colleagues to follow individual care plans, medication management, and social care aspects in order to support patients to achieve their potential whatever their diagnosis, so they can live well in their community and move towards discharge with the right support and network in place to meet their needs.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to support patients both in their place of residence and also in their communities. Following care plans set by other practitioners, supporting patients to appointments/reviews, psychological interventions, and advocate for them in a variety of circumstances with GP's, Councils, Social Services and other external agencies, ensuring their potential in their activities of daily living is reached. You will manage your own diary to enable you to work flexibly and responsively to your caseload of service users.

The post holder will be adaptable to the role whilst supporting the Multi Disciplinary Team. Excellent IT skills are essential to ensure that you are able to manage diary/commitments, complete accurate case recording and complete daily tasks. You will need to demonstrate good time management and organisational skills, and an ability to plan and prioritise workload.

The post holder will also need to have the ability to travel independently in the community to deliver services, with a hybrid approach to working.

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.