Job overview

Are you an experienced mental health professional or a band 5 practitioner looking for a developmental role ready to embrace holistic approaches to providing care for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties?

Are you interested in learning and embedding person centred interventions such as Open Dialogue and the Maastricht approach?

Do you want to work within a team that fosters patient centred care and embraces collaboration? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you within the Spalding locality team .

As a Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will coordinate your own caseload, have the opportunity to provide a range of specialist mental health assessments and evidence based recovery focused interventions.

You will work collaboratively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and complex presentations, their carers and other agencies, putting the person at the centre of all you do enabling them to access mental health specialist support when and where they need it. 

This is an exciting time to join the trust, in LPFT we are forging ahead in our community transformation plans that aim to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated & tailored to local need and  targeting health inequalities .

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

 To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behavior

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

To assess carer and family’s needs and develop, implement and review programs of support for cares and families.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.

To adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics, as well as associated legislation.

To develop clinical practice having due regard to NICE guidelines and other best practice guidance

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.