Main area: Older People Community Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)
Job ref: 274-11343-OA
Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Manthorpe Centre, Grantham Hospital
Town: Grantham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 08/04/2025
Job overview
This role is to provide and support the team with clinical expertise and to develop a service to meet the needs of the older adult population in the Grantham locality.
As part of a connected division, the team maintains excellent communication with the wider OA CMHT’s across Lincolnshire, but also with the wider division including inpatients and our home treatment teams. We are seeking a leader who preferably has a mental health nursing qualification; however, other healthcare professional registrants will be considered. You will need to demonstrate the experience required to support this role and have an understanding of the agenda’s relating to mental health care needs of the older person, both for the mental health and memory pathways within the service, and a focus on the safe management of waiting lists.
You will have experience at a senior level, including managing or supervising junior staff. You will be able to evidence ongoing professional development relevant to a leadership role, and a working knowledge of delivering service improvement initiatives would be beneficial.
Communicating with families and carers is a key part of this post. Ensuring that the team involves families and carers in the patient care plans and care delivery is especially important. As the team coordinator, you will have excellent time management skills, listening skills, and an ability to communicate and work collaboratively across the Lincolnshire healthcare system.
Main duties of the job
1. Support the Service Manager in providing effective frontline management of the multi-disciplinary community Mental Health team.
2. Provide leadership and, in partnership with users, ensure access to the full range of specialist assessment and interventions.
3. Provide a high standard of clinical care in one’s own practice and the team’s practice.
4. Delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, while maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.
5. Ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
6. Protect people from abuse, neglect, and harm.
7. Contribute to the development of the service by participating in management discussions and decision making through attendance at individual briefing sessions and group management meetings as required.
8. Promote direct supervision to specified staff delegated by the Service Manager.
9. Support the Service Manager on service improvement following internal case reviews, complaints, and incidents.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up-to-date agreed care plans, risk assessments, and reviews are in place.
2. Assess carers’ and families' needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for carers and families.
3. Manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
4. Receive and, where appropriate, participate in staff development and performance appraisals. Recruit to posts within their locality.
5. Support the development of professional practice in the service, ensuring the provision of clinical supervision.
6. Support the Service Manager in planning and managing the overall expenditure of the team of staff, supplies, equipment, etc., within the budget determined by the Divisional Manager and in accordance with the Trust’s standing orders, standing financial instructions, budgetary rules, and other financial policies.
7. Attend relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of service users.
8. Assist the Service Manager by monitoring performance and activity targets.
9. Support the development and use of systems to monitor and review the Service Provision against national and local standards as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality, and delivery.
Person specification
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
* Budget management
* Self-motivated with excellent personal management skills
* Statistics
Experience
* Post-registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs
* Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
* Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality
* Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
* Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions, and boundaries
Qualifications
* Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1st Level Registration (NMC, HCPC)
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in management
* Management training
* Masters Degree
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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