Job summary
- Main area
- Skegness Community Mental Health Team
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-11658-AC
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Holly Lodge
- Town
- Skegness
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Psychiatric Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the transformation of Mental health Services. Do you believe in change to our current systems, introducing new ideas and working with the holistic care of the service user at its heart and those who need our help with the mental health in their community? If your passionate about community mental health care and working alongside patients to ensure they are at the heart of their care. Come join this team!
Main duties of the job
Please see job spec. Your role will work closely with our community and voluntary services across Skegness and our IPBT to ensure we are working as one Locality. Meeting the needs of our service users within the community so they can feel more empowered, safer and live independently fulfilled lives. You will be part of a team who support individuals to live well in their community with mental health needs.
Case management/own case load
Mental health assessment skills, decision-making skills and diagnostic reasoning skills specific to adults
Seeks supervision and support as and when appropriate
Recognized advanced clinical competence
Plans, implements & evaluates care
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 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.
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
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Eleanor Duke, via email at [email protected]
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both community/in-patient.
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
- Currently Registered Nurse
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Management training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles
- Highly developed communication 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 service users & carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and collectively
- Ability to travel independently throughout the county
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
- Eleanor Duke
- Job title
- Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07543500812
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