Senior Mental Health Practitioner Clinical Team Lead

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the transformation of Mental health Services. Do you believe in change to our current systems, introducing new ideas and working with the holistic care of the service user at its heart? Do you want to lead a team with these same principles whilst still remaining clinical and being face to face with service users. Come join this team!
Your role will work closely with our community and voluntary services across Skegness and our CMHT to ensure we are working as one Locality. Meeting the needs of our service users within the community so they can feel more empowered, safer and live independently fulfilled lives. You will lead a team, offering management supervision, clinical guidance, hold a small clinical caseload, and engage with the wider system to offer mental health support and guidance to other clinicians for their patients if appropriate. You will be part of a wider management locality team to make these changes on how we deliver mental health care within Skegness and wider coastal population.
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 Adults with serious mental illness.
To ensure delivery of a person centred approach, “What matters to me” to 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 assessment.
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 neighbourhood 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 Neighbourhood 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 neighbourhood 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, which includes those required within Enhanced Health for Care Homes for residents with non Dementia diagnosis.
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 neighbourhood 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 neighbourhood.
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 work with the management matrix to understand the fiscal and governance issues that are applicable to the organisation and the neighbourhood in order to develop personal leadership and management skills.
To provide supervision to other team members on a day to day basis.
Promote direct 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 Trus

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