Primary Care Senior Mental Health Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

At Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, our Community Team is driven by a shared passion for patient care and staff well-being. We take pride in creating a supportive and inclusive work environment which has earnt us recognition as one of the best mental health and learning disability Trusts in the country. We are also honoured to be the number one Trust for staff morale.
Are you a registered professional with experience in mental health or learning disabilities, or do you have an interest in working in this field? As a member of our dedicated Community Mental Health Team you’ll provide high-quality patient care in our community, ensuring that patients receive safe, personalised treatment. You’ll work collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, GPs, Neighbourhood teams, Social workers and Integrated Placed based teams. the team will offer a supportive environment to allow you to grow and learn alongside them.
Your well-being matters to us, so you can choose from flexible hours, part-time or hybrid working arrangements to suit your lifestyle. You’ll only work between Monday to Friday, with no weekend, bank holiday, or out-of-hours requirements. If you aren’t local, we can provide you with a relocation incentive of up to £8,000. If you would be interested in relocating then Lincolnshire is a very appealing place to live with its beautiful landscapes, affordable housing, thriving economy, great social life and family-friendly places to visit.
Do you want to change how invidiuals access their mental health care? How do you feel about talking to someone in a beach hut, really being accessible to talk about mental health and giving people real opportunity to engage and learn about how they can manage their own wellbeing away from secondary services. Then this is an exciting opportunity for you. Do you believe in change to our current systems, introducing new ideas and integrated working with the holistic care of the service user at its heart? Do you want to work within a GP surgery as the Mental Health subject matter expert? We want you to be in a role where you can guide, support, listen and educate on mental health for both our service users and our wider NHS colleagues to ensure individuals get the right, most appropriate mental health care dependant on their needs.
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 work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner working to pro-actively monitor and anticipate changing phase of illness and health and social care needs of patients with serious mental illness.
To ensure delivery of a person centred approachto all patients that enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
To provide a timely response to referrals and be responsible for advanced clinical care using comprehensive, evidence based, holistic assessments.
Promoting high quality standards and cost effectiveness in all aspects of care delivery.
Act as an autonomous practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates an enhanced knowledge base and advanced clinical skills and competencies.
Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home / community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission
To maintain responsibility and accountability for the provision of a high quality, cost effective complex care based on health assessment of patients referred to the caseload.
Accountable for planning and evaluating the work carried out by self and Place based colleagues. Managing and prioritising a caseload of patients according to their health status, who are referred by various agencies including GP, hospital, case managers, social care, and independent sector promoting self-care, self-management and independent living.
Contribute to the work carried out by Place based colleagues from a MH perspective.
Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care. Referral on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing.
Develop individual evidence based holistic care plans and self-management plans with the patient, carers, relatives, health and social care professionals. Recognising the differing phase of illness and planning for deterioration.
Attends core place based team working meetings as part of an integrated team and works in a collaborative manner with the Neighbourhood Lead.
Facilitate, participate and optimises case conferences / multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings. Establishes and maintains excellent trusted and credible relationships with individuals and groups, exploring issues relating to care options and decisions to sustain effective working across the health social care and voluntary system.
To work within the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding policy. Refer to social services as per adult protection policies and complete all appropriate documentation.
Maintain and record accurate documentation and correspondence in line with professional and Trust guidance in the appropriate legal records and formats.
Plan, implement, monitor and review therapeutic interventions with individuals / carers who have serious mental illness through holistic patient centred assessments.
Support the local implementation of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and well-being of patients such as the NHS England framework for community mental health services.
Act as a role model and expert to Place based colleagues, endorsing best practice, policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure risk assessments are completed for the environment in which the team is working .
To support the workforce development for managing the changing demographic and population health.
Develops and maintains highly developed clinical skills and support the learning and educational needs of others within the Place based.
To act as a clinical specialist and contribute to service development by working as a member of working / steering groups and in partnership working and service transformation.
Engages patients and carers in individual health promotion action.
Participation in population health / management / improvement activities within the community and use high level communication skills to communicate complex issues with patients and carers, in particular the skills needed for cognitive assessment and mental health status.
Maintains patient confidentiality and works within the confines of the Data Protection Act
Undertake medicine management review and prescribe medicine and appliances for patients.
To provide supervision to other team members on a day to day basis.
Deliver direct line management supervision to specified staff delegated by the Service Manager.
Receive and, where appropriate participate in staff development and performance appraisals.
To recruit to posts within their locality.
Support the development of the professional practice in the service, ensuring the provision of clinical supervision.
Promote the mission and values of the Trust

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