Band 5 Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time Band 5 Practitioner 37.5 hrs. per week/ part time hours will be considered to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team in the North of the County, based in Lincoln.

Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire so having a means to travel is essential.

We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/ disordered eating and psychosis. Our team looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care

The role will include providing Crisis Assessments with support from our Band 6 Practitioners, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho
- education with parents and Carers.

You will work closely with the new CAMHs Mental Health Liaison service

Within the team we utilise animal assisted therapy (AAT) and have an established therapy dog within the team.

The successful applicant will be expected to work a shift pattern on a Rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.

We are an innovative service and pride ourselves in providing training to enhance the care and support we can provide. We welcome clinicians with creative ideas to help continue to develop the service.

Our teams also love cake and snacks, good baking skills is a desirable requirement for this post. We have a good sense of humor and are a very supportive team; Come and join 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 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.

To provide a high standard of community clinical care ensuring safe and effective treatment and comprehensive care planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools

Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.

Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.

Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.

Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.

Provide a 7 day week, extended service

Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children’s services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.

Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.

Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.

Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.

Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.

Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.

Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.

Propose changes and developments to servi