Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
There are currently lots of exciting developments happening within LPFT's services for Children and Young People (CYP) who have mental health concerns and live in Lincolnshire.
You will work within the First Coastal Primary Care Network. This role is part of a new place-based mental health workforce that is integrated and co-located within Primary Care Networks. You will be required to work autonomously within the context of local and national drivers, providing advanced clinical care and liaison into Primary Care Networks, using high level assessment to determine presentation, treatments, refer appropriately and co-ordinate the child/young person's journey across the health, social care and voluntary sector system, regardless of care setting.
This is one of three posts that are working with three PCN's. Base is negotiable between PCN, LPFT and successful candidate. You will be required to travel around this large rural county.
Main duties of the job
Key aspects of the role include:
* To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner working within specified GP practices to provide specialist children and young people's mental health input within the primary care setting.
* To work with a caseload of children and young people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates an enhanced knowledge base and advanced clinical skills and competencies.
* Establishing effective working relationships with children and young people, their families and carers, including education settings, and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing the child/young person at the centre of their care.
* Engage positively with the CYP Access Team to support children and young people in accessing the right care at the right time in the right place.
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 2,800 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 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.
Job responsibilities
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
* Evidence of advanced clinical practice at post graduate level to masters or equivalent
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Management or leadership qualification
Experience
* Post-Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs
* Experience of working autonomously within a senior position
* Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills
* Experience of working across organisations
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
* Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality
* Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries
* Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
* Experience of leading service change/development/transformation
* Experience of leading training sessions
* Experience of neighbourhood working
Skills
* Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
* Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stakeholders.
* Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.
* IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.
* Analyse and interpret data and/or information.
* Statistics.
Special Requirements
* Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
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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