Acute Care Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a Registered Nurse, Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist? Are you passionate in your profession and keen to make a positive difference in peoples lives? Are you looking for a new career adventure and wanting a new challenge that is rewarding? Then the Lincoln Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team could be for you!
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service is predominantly a community based service that provides mental state and risk assessment of referred service users presenting with acute mental ill health or debilitating mental distress. It provides initial and continued health and social care to it’s service users based on their individually assessed needs, ensuring that an agreed package of care is implemented which reflects the Trust’s policy to engage services users and their carers in all aspects of their carer and treatment.
The post holder will be responsible for carrying out clinical assessments to identify the care needs of service users who present in an acute mental health crisis or that show symptoms of mental distress that could lead to significant risk/harm.
The post holder will be responsible for implementing evidence based care plans to ensure identified care needs are met so that the defined group of service users and their carers within the service catchment area can successfully transition from crisis point to discharge whilst under the guidance of senior staff. The post holder will also provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
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 .
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 24 hours / 7-day-a-week service, including night shifts.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of staff members of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To help manage a shared case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
To ensure up to date and agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.
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.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within CRHT and with external agencies.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
To adhere to registered practitioners codes of professional conduct and ethics (NMC etc.), plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within CRHT and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audits.
To undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the CRHT Team Co-ordinator/Manager.
Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care colleagues and teams to help create networks that improve the pathway of care for service users referred to CRHT.
Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development

Please refer the Job description for details