Main area OPFD Lincoln CMHT Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available) Job ref 274-11413-OA
Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Witham Court Town North Hykeham Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 08/05/2025
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Older Adult (OA) CMHT at Witham Court as a full time Band 5 Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner. This is a new role within the team covering the Lincoln & Gainsborough area combining clinic and home visits.
We are seeking to recruit a dedicated, enthusiastic and dynamic practitioner with a keen interest in developing existing skills with OA experiencing serious mental illness.
We are committed to supporting you to become the best you can be. We offer a comprehensive induction, excellent training and further development opportunities with monthly managerial supervision and yearly appraisal. Clinical Supervision will be provided by a Clinical Psychologist in conjunction with the Team Co-ordinators.
The team supports flexible working with a combination of office and home based working.
The Team carries a caseload on the Mental Health and Dementia Pathways and is supported by Consultant Psychiatrists, Speciality Medics, ACP and nursing staff.
The post will entail supporting our existing patients on the Mental Health Pathway requiring specialist secondary services following the Divisional pathways and protocols.
We hold a weekly MDT meeting and aim to provide timely diagnosis, support and decision making to facilitate optimal management and life outcomes for those in need.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work alongside patients, families, carers and MDT's to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making in relation to care and treatment. This will include the formulation of risk assessments and management plans.
The post holder will deliver a set of psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based in the best evidence, to address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. This will require engagement with families and carers to develop care plans focused on strengths, and which are outcome based.
To work under close case supervision from a suitably qualified professional to ensure the delivery of high quality collaborative care planning as a valued member of the MDT.
To work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist accredited to provide specified psychologically informed - wellbeing-focused interventions including:
* Behavioural activation and graded exposure using the GOALS programme
* Improving sleep
* Building confidence
* Teaching problem-solving skills
* Recognising and managing emotions
* Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
* Support with medicines management
You will sit within a significantly growing countywide psychology department consisting of Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 2 x MHWPs, 3 x Psychological Interventions Facilitators and 2 x Clinical Psychologists (starting in post in Oct 25).
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
* Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
* Competitive annual leave allowance
* Car leasing scheme
* Free eye tests
* Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
* Experience running groups/activities
* Experience working as part of a team
* Experience of being supervised
* Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
* Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
Special requirements
* Ability to travel around the county independently without the use of public transport
Skills
* Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
* Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality
* Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance
* Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
* Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users
* Commitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team
Qualifications
* A graduate certificate (Level 6) or equivalent, delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
* Registered as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner on a professional register recognised for this role by NHS England
* Postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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