Clinical Lead Practitioner

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire provides early and preventative emotional wellbeing interventions for children, young people and their families across Lincolnshire. We work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.

We are a passionate and dedicated team and are advertising for an exceptional Clinical Lead Practitioner to join us. This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people’s emotional wellbeing to help shape the Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service.

You will need to have excellent knowledge and significant experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions. As well as having skills and knowledge in mental health care, it is possible that you will have experience of working in education and/or social care.

You will be expected to be knowledgeable and experienced in children’s safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire and demonstrate good working relationships with other professionals to enable the provision of holistic care to children, young people and their families. Knowledge and understanding of local and national children & young people’s mental health initiatives is desirable.

This role will include support via liaison, consultation, supervision and training to education providers and universal services. This will involve working in a co-ordinated way with the other Clinical Lead Practitioners within the service to develop and deliver educational packages to professionals within the school environment and the wider community.

You may also be required to provide group and individual therapy sessions for children & young people and their parents/carers. You will also co-ordinate groups and workshops within the team alongside the Team Co-ordinator and Band 5 Practitioners.

You should be able to provide excellent clinical & management supervision to Band 4 and Band 5 Practitioners within the team, with the ability to inspire and develop staff to their full potential.

You should possess experience of managing staff, experience of producing and delivering teaching sessions to professionals as well as knowledge and experience of delivering therapeutic interventions. You will be expected to be familiar with clinical and operational policies and procedures including; safeguarding, HR and complaints.

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 really 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.

Clinical Supervision & Support

Provide clinical support to Practitioners with clinical risk management and safeguarding issues based on knowledge and experience as required.

Mandatory attendance at management meetings to contribute and support to communicate decisions/changes made to the team in a positive way.

Support with recruitment where necessary.

Supporting the induction of new staff.

Mandatory attendance at monthly Clinical Lead meetings.

Act as Practice Supervisor or Assessor (registered nurse) for student nurses in the team.

Leadership and Team Management

Provide visible leadership to the teams, leading by example as a positive role model.

Provide management supervision/appraisals for B5 Practitioners.

Conduct appraisals for direct supervisees.

Completing audits as required (for example quality audits and examining data).

Supporting the team as needed, this may include support plans, check-ins and onward referrals.

Monitoring and supporting allocations of new referrals.

Supporting practitioners in caseload/diary management as needed.

Monitor and review reporting completed by local admin regarding record keepin