Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire provides early and preventative emotional wellbeing interventions for children, young people and their families across Lincolnshire. We work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Healthy Minds Lincolnshire team on a 6 month fixed term/secondment basis. The post will be to cover the East of Lincolnshire- base to be negotiated.
You will provide the expert knowledge in relation to young peoples emotional wellbeing and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within the community setting.
Main duties of the job
* Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances, for example, wider environmental and social issues; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour by linking them with evidence based treatment pathways, or engaging with wider services as necessary.
* Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk assessment and care planning.
* To assess carers' and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
* Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
* To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making, with other professionals and agencies.
About us
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.
Job 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RMN, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, or other relevant profession with accreditation/registration with a professional body.
* Post graduate qualification in leadership/management/supervision, or significant experience in this area.
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in relevant clinical practice.
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice (Msc or Degree).
Experience
* Relevant experience of working with young people with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals feeling in crisis/with complex needs/risk issues, and skills that are transferable to community settings. Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
* Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
* Experience of working autonomously within a senior position.
* Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills.
* Experience of working across organisations.
* Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries.
* Experience of working within a Hospital environment.
* Working knowledge of Assessment tools.
* Working with people who have self-harm/suicidal ideation.
* Working within a multi-disciplinary approach to healthcare.
* Experience of teaching in a formal or informal setting.
* Knowledge of the Mental Health Act.
Skills & Competences
* Excellent assessment and risk management skills.
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
* Knowledge of current agenda and guidance towards Mental Health forward view.
* Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information.
* Highly motivated & able to engage with service users, carers and key stakeholders to improve outcomes.
* Ability to engage with patients experiencing High Expressed Emotion.
* Experience of working with patients who have self harming behaviours.
* Basic IT skills.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Working collaboratively with other health and social care providers.
Special requirements
* Ability to travel around the county independently.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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