Locality Lead - Boston, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Have a passion for working with first episode psychosis?


At LPFT, our Early Intervention in Psychosis team, work with service users from the age of 14 to 35, helping people to live their best lives in the community.

We do this by providing specialist assessments and interventions for our patient group.

We work collaboratively with both the regional and national Early Intervention Networks which provides opportunity for continuing professional development for the team and pushes us to continually improve our offer.

If you share our team ethos of prevention and recovery we would love to hear from you.

We are now recruiting EIP Locality Leads to provide senior oversight within newly created EIP locality hubs.

Our vision for these hubs is to enable more localised ways of working, in support of the community transformation model.

As a Locality Lead you will be responsible for the provision of high quality multi-disciplinary care within the framework of EIP targets and outcomes, leading the locality team with your clinical and operational expertise.


We have one role available currently which will be based in the east of the county (covering Boston, Skegness and Louth).

Your base will be agreed within the locality.


The post holder will provide operational management of the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) team members within the allocated locality, in line with the Access and Waiting Times for EIP and National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance and quality standards for schizophrenia and psychosis.


The post holder will support the Service Manager in providing effective frontline management of the multi-disciplinary Early Intervention in Psychosis Team.

In agreement with the Service Manager, the post holder will provide leadership and, in working in partnership with users, will ensure access to the full range of specialist assessment and interventions available.


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 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 clinical care in one's own practice and the team's practice.


To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.


To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the EI locality 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.


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.

Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.


To contribute to the development of the service, participating in management discussions and decision making through attendance at individual briefing sessions and group management meetings as required.

Promote direct supervision to specified staff delegated by the Service Manager.

Receive and, where appropriate participate in staff development and performance appraisals.

To recruit to posts within their locality.

Support the development of the professional practice in the service, ensuring the provision of clinical supervision.

Promote the mission and values of the Trus

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