Job overview

The Spalding Community Mental Health Team is committed to empowering those experiencing severe and complex mental health problems to regain personal autonomy and a sense of active control over their experiences that enables them to return to a full and active life in accordance fulfilling their personal aspirations.

In order to support individuals in achieving this the team provides comprehensive and multidisciplinary bio-psychosocial assessment and case management.  It forms part of the Spalding & South Lincolnshire Locality mental health provision and is actively engaged in the community mental health transformation agenda.  We are also actively working to develop the range of effective and evidence based social, and psychologically informed trauma informed interventions.  We are seeking to establish both an open dialogue approach and the use of Maastricht principals within our practice.  The successful candidates’ values and enthusiasm will be in keeping with this transformation.

The team seeks to be an environment in which all staff actively contribute to decision making and development.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the planning, and implementation of evidence based interventions in collaboration with a defined group of service users and their social networks.  

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of collaborative, trauma informed, strengths based intervention, focussing on the goals and aspirations of the individual and their social network.

To identify clear recovery focussed goals utilising Iroc, the HOPE toolkit and other appropriate measures to guide the teams interventions.

To empower individuals and their social networks, utilising their strengths in order to achieve their recovery. 

To work collaboratively with partner agencies across the wider health and social care locality provision in order to meet the needs of social networks. 

To act as a designated Lead Healthcare Professional ensuring up to date collaborative care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.

To provide high quality learning and development opportunities for both colleagues and students.

To contribute to the maintenance of a psychologically safe environment in which the diverse views and experience of all valued and utilised.  

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 2,800 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.