Community Mental Health Practitioner

6 months ago


Grantham, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Grantham Community Mental Health Team are looking to recruit a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Practitioner, Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.

This role gives the opportunity to be involved in the journey of transforming adult community mental health services within LPFT. It offers the practitioner opportunities for creative approaches to working, ensuring the patient remains central in the care and intervention planning. Support and interventions are delivered that are recovery focused and promote independence and resilience and deliver individual needs led, high quality outcomes for patients and carers. You will work co-productively within Lincolnshire healthcare including Primary and Secondary care services, social and voluntary care system and patients, and carers. This enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services in the locality of Grantham.

The role involves acting as the lead in the care and treatment required to support clients with complex mental health needs, demonstrating practice that is evidence-based and innovative.

**The main duties of the role will include**:
Conduct team assessments and to deliver specific therapeutic interventions. Including liaising with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. Risk assessment, and risk management is an essential requirement.

Administer prescribed medication and assess the service user for desired and non-desired effects (if Nurses).

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To attend regular MDT meetings with the team manager to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and service user mix.

Supporting clients with their physical health awareness and some health education.

To assess carers and family’s needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for cares and families.

Allocate diary time to cover to the Duty rota.

To provide managerial supervision to colleagues in the team.

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.

To 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.

To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of nursing members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

To assess carers’ and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.

Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.

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