Mental Health Practitioner - Sleaford, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Sleaford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An opportunity is available for an experienced and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner to provide specialist mental health care within the Integrated Placed Based Team in the Sleaford area.

Lincolnshire is one of only 12 areas in England to be chosen to lead on transforming mental health services.

These privileged roles provide great opportunity for enthusiastic, motivated, and committed team members to lead the changes locally, working with partners across health, care, and community.

We are forging ahead in our community transformation plans to offer a dynamic, localised approach that is responsive, evaluated & tailored to local need, targeting health inequalities.

We are focused on helping people towards prevention and recovery, enabling them to live well in their community as much as possible.

We work closely with the local community to design and improve services, ensuring we use the existing assets and work to continually improve and develop these.

To work within the context of local and national drivers, providing specialist clinical care using assessment to make a diagnosis, treatments, refer appropriately and co-ordinate the patient's journey across the health, social care and voluntary sector system, regardless of care setting.

To maintain comprehensive clinical communication and education with general practices and neighbourhood colleagues, providing timely feedback to the service manager.

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.

Intervention and management of a case load of patients, working as a specialist practitioner working to pro-actively monitor and anticipate changing phase of illness and health and social care needs of patients with serious mental illness.

To ensure delivery of a person-centred approach, "What matters to me" to all patients that enables individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological and social wellbeing.

Being an advocate for the patient in ensuring they receive appropriate timely care.

Act as a specialist practitioner, working with a caseload of people referred to them in a manner which demonstrates a specialist knowledge base and specialist clinical skills and competencies.

Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home / community and reduce the need for, or prevent inappropriate hospital admission

Triage, initial assessment, management and prioritisation of a caseload of patients according to their health status, who are referred by various agencies including GP, hospital, case managers, social care, and independent sector promoting self-care, self-management and independent living.

Contribute to the work carried out by Neighbourhood colleagues from a MH perspective.

Provide coordination and oversight supporting the management of people with low level mental health issues (Primary Care Therapy Colleagues/community assets support)

Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care.

Referral on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing.

Develop individual evidence based holistic care plans and self-management plans with the patient, carers, relatives, health and social care professionals.

Recognising the differing phase of illness and planning for deterioration.

To support GP's by providing advice, direct input and where necessary primary car