Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Carholme Court
Town Lincoln
Salary £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 26/01/2025 23:59
Recovery Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
We have a very exciting opportunity to recruit to a Band 4 role at our Lincoln Community Mental Health Team. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our fantastic community team within Lincoln.
Lincoln’s Adult Community Mental Health Services are a committed integrated service that strives to provide quality recovery-based support to people with severe and enduring mental health related difficulties.
Please refer to the Job Description & Competency Framework for Band 4 Recovery Practitioner.
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of a Band 6 or Band 5 Registered Professional, support the provision of a comprehensive multi-disciplinary community mental health service. Responsibilities include:
1. Providing delegated assessments within defined time standards.
2. Delivering planned activities and interventions, complying with appropriate legislation and LPFT policies.
3. Facilitating feedback from service users and families.
4. Working collaboratively with service users, families, colleagues, and stakeholders.
5. Recording accurate and appropriate information within the service user’s clinical notes using the Trust’s clinical information systems.
6. Actively contributing to meeting productivity targets and complying with CQC standards.
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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide a range of structured therapeutic interventions and clinical monitoring in accordance with National guidelines and best-practice within the wider community, working in group or on a one-to-one basis. Responsibilities include:
1. Acting as a lead professional to service users accepted into the service and identified to be of low to medium complexity, under the supervision of a Registered Professional.
2. Providing support and advice and liaising/engaging with partnership agencies, multi-disciplinary teams, and the wider community where appropriate.
3. Acting as facilitator for the groups programme.
4. Contributing positively to the achievement of service targets and outcomes.
5. Using techniques derived from one or more therapeutic models to engage and optimise service user treatment outcomes and to support their long-term care plan.
6. When indicated, referring or signposting to a range of other specialist and third sector services.
7. Working closely with, supporting, and providing information to service user families/carers, and wider community services that support the service-user care-pathway.
8. Complying with and carrying out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983), and other relevant national and local guidance.
9. Participating in the provision of an extended hour’s service, if required to do so.
10. Working flexibly across the county to support service need.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent in Health and Social care.
* Assistant Practitioner qualification or willingness/commitment to work towards.
Experience
* Experience of working with people with mental health conditions.
* Worked within a Health & Social Care setting.
* Previous experience as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner.
Skills
* Excellent organisational and time management skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to work independently and collectively.
* Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Thorough understanding of mental health issues.
* Ability to embrace and adapt to new challenges.
* Ability to support an individual’s recovery.
* Experience of managing a caseload/community experience.
* Ability to travel independently to other bases and Service User homes.
* Flexible and able to support extended hours opening, if required.
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
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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