Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Peter Hodgkinson Centre
Town: Lincoln
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Band 6
Job overview
Are you a Registered Nurse, Mental Health Nurse, or Social Worker? Are you passionate about your profession and keen to make a positive difference in people's lives? Are you looking for a new career adventure and a rewarding challenge? Then the Lincoln Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team could be for you!
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service is predominantly a community-based service that provides mental state and risk assessment of referred service users presenting with acute mental ill health or debilitating mental distress. It provides initial and continued health and social care to its service users based on their individually assessed needs, ensuring that an agreed package of care is implemented which reflects the Trust’s policy to engage service users and their carers in all aspects of their care and treatment.
The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination of care needs, assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence-based care to a defined group of service users and their carers within the service catchment area. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team. The post will involve working within the Crisis Team which includes The Home Treatment Team, Assessment Team, Police Force Control Room, and The Crisis Vehicular Response Service.
Main duties of the job
* Provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment, and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
* Work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
* Ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice are of the highest standard.
* Manage case-load and service delivery to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
* Ensure up-to-date care plans, risk assessments, and reviews are in place.
* Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognize mental illness, and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage, and where appropriate change their behavior.
* Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
* Assess carers’ and families' needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for them.
* Protect people from abuse, neglect, and harm.
* Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
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 a 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 network groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Crisis Team and with external agencies.
* Maintain accurate and timely clinical records and risk assessments, and co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
* Adhere to N.M.C. or other relevant codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
* Develop clinical practice having due regard to Department of Health and other guidelines.
* Demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Crisis Team and seek opportunities in local and national areas to promote and develop the profession.
* Participate in Clinical Governance activities, including induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management, and audit.
* Provide management supervision to Band 5 and Band 3 staff.
* Undertake specific project work or any other duties as negotiated with the Crisis Team.
* Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. Create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Crisis Team.
* Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post-registration education, training, and continuing professional development.
Person specification
Qualifications
* S/W, O/T, RMN, or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
* Evidence of specialized continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
* Management training.
Experience
* Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills transferable to both community/in-patient.
* Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Skills
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
* Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
* Highly developed communication skills.
* Delegation while maintaining overall responsibility for patient care, where appropriate.
* Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
* Ability to work independently and collectively.
Special Requirements
* Ability to travel independently throughout the county.
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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