An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Boston Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The role covers the large service catchment area; therefore, a full manual driving license is essential. You will not be expected to use your vehicle for work, the team has access to pool cars. The service runs over a 24/7 period, so you will work long days across 7 days a week, with the expectation of working nights also. The team provides assessment to those experiencing acute mental illness and, if indicated, short-term home treatment in a suitable setting. The team refers to several longer-term services; if required, the post holder would identify this. The post holder will provide professional advice to service users and carers as well as support to other agencies and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team. You will be expected to have good documentation skills and be able to confidently use the Clinical Information System- Rio. To manage risk, individuals will be Breakaway Trained. The role will include coordinating the daily visits to other members of the team on duty that day, the post holder will be expected to be able to effectively triage referrals to the team over the phone within a time frame. The post holder will also be expecting as part of their role to respond to the Crisis Vehicle response. The post holder will be expected to be responsible for the management supervision of junior staff members. Also, to be a mentor for students.
The post holder will be responsible for the coordination of care needs, assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence-based care to a defined group of service users and their carers within the service catchment area. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team. The post will involve working within the Crisis Team, which includes the S136 Suite, Triage Car, and the new Rapid Response Car pilot service.
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.
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 work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team are of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage case-load and service delivery by and 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 behaviour.
Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers’ and families’ needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for carers and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect, and harm.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management, and audit

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