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Job overview

An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Sleaford Integrated Place Based Team (IPBT). This role is part of a new place-based mental health workforce that is integrated and co-located within Primary Care Networks.

Lincolnshire is one of only 12 areas in England to be chosen to lead on transforming mental health services. In LPFT we are forging ahead in our community transformation plans that aim to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated & tailored to local need, targeting health inequalities. We are focused on helping people towards prevention and recovery, enabling them to live well in their community as much as possible.

We work closely with the local community to design and improve services, ensuring we use the existing assets and work to continually improve and develop these. It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. Support and interventions are delivered that are recovery focused and promote independence and resilience and deliver individual needs led, high quality outcomes for patients and carers. 

Main duties of the job

Key elements of the role will include (but not be limited to):

• Managing a caseload of highly complex/SMI presentation. Collaboratively working with primary care, secondary care, neighbourhood team, local authority, third sector and voluntary and community organisations; to maintain personalised care plans which focus on what matters to the person.
• Attends core IBPT working meetings as part of an integrated team and works in a collaborative manner with the Neighbourhood Lead
•  To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner, providing specialist clinical knowledge and interventions to service users.
•  Developing and implementing clinical processes that contributes towards the continuous improvement of mental health provision
•  Providing best practice training, mentorship and guidance to mental health practitioners and other roles within the primary care/ neighbourhood MDT
• To supervise other clinical staff within the Integrated Place Based Team
• Accountable for planning and evaluating the work carried out by self and Integrated Place Based Team colleagues.
• The post holder will be encouraged to contribute to service development, and there will be opportunities for CPD and clinical supervision as professional development is actively encouraged.

Working for our organisation

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.