Senior Acute Care Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit (PCDU) and Health Based Place of Safety (HBPoS) are looking for a Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join our team as a Senior Practitioner.
We are looking for a practitioner that is enthusiastic about the Urgent Treatment Pathway and is experienced in either inpatient or community care. Successful postholders will provide professional nursing management, foster effective and therapeutic relationships with service users and professionals, provide expert clinical advice and support and provide leadership and guidance to the team on shift.
The PCDU is a 48hr assessment unit that accepts referrals from other mental health professionals for service users in crisis and/or struggling to remain in the community safely. PCDU provides an environment and atmosphere that is conducive to enabling service users access to high quality, thorough assessments that lead to well developed & service user centred care plans.
To assess the care needs, develop & implement plans of care for those who are experiencing acute mental health deterioration or who are in a state of mental health crisis.
To be clinical leader of the team when on shift.
To provide clinical services that work within the policies, protocols, and clinical procedures of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust.
To work as part of a team providing a user-focused, accessible, and responsive assessment service that is safe, supportive and competent for people who experience acute mental health problems.
Patterns of working will include days, evenings, weekends, nights & bank holidays.
Provides management supervision to Band 5’s and 3’s.
To undertake managerial duties in the absence of the team coordinator.
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.

Practice

• Implement evidence-based practice in the provision of treatment and care to clients.
• Be accountable for the clinical caseload using resources as appropriate.
• Select appropriate assessment tools for assessing specific client needs and risks.
• Demonstrate sound clinical decision-making skills that are in the interests of the client.
• Provide skilled clinical supervision to others.
• Apply health enhancing skills in a wider group/community setting.
• Apply self awareness to reflections on their practice

Leadership

• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
• Identify areas of practice requiring development and improvement.
• Use available resources efficiently and effectively to maximise client care.
• Take a lead role in the implementation of change to develop practice.
• Distinguish between different leadership and management styles.
• Choose an effective style in leadership to suit care environment.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of chosen leadership style.
• Supervise the leadership development of junior staff and learners.
• Act in a an advisory capacity in relation to clinical and professional issues for the team.
• Understand the political dimensions of service development.

Practice Development and Research

• Demonstrate how local service delivery is provided.
• Actively contribute to the improvement of service delivery and practice development.
• Enable team members to inform service developments.
• Create a supportive structure to aid the implementation of practice development plans.
• Facilitate others to consider, reflect upon and enhance their own practice.
• Actively contribute to the ongoing development of professional practice within the team.
• Facilitate the use of local networks to inform the monitoring practice of service delivery.
• Demonstrate service user and/or carer involvement in all aspects of service provision.
• Contribute to the formulation of policies, procedures and clinical guidelines.
• Monitor adherence to locally agreed policies, procedures and clinical guidelines.
• Facilitate and lead local practice development projects i.e. PDU.
• Contribute to the implementation of change in professional practice relevant to new evidence.
• Implement service changes and evaluate the impact upon service uses and/or carers.
• Demonstrate an ability to lead staff in service evaluation.

Education, Training and Personal Development

• Identify the educational needs of junior staff and learners.
• Examine different techniques towards solving problems in a critical and systematic way.
• Integrate reflective practice into team working.
• Disseminate evidence-base practice through educational programmes.
• Construct, deliver and evaluate a programme of training with clear desired educational outcomes.
• Demonstrate the ability to empower others in the identification of their strengths and weaknesses.
• Enable others to devise personal and professional objectives that support personal development and career progression.
• Mentor learners in accordance with the standards described by their relevant professional body.

Please refer the Job description for details