Community Forensic Practitioner - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Lincoln, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The CFT is both a lively and busy multi-disciplinary team which provides care coordination and psychologically centred care and treatment for individuals with high risk or complex needs.

We would welcome applicants from any qualified and experienced disciplines i.e. Occupational therapist, Social Worker, Speech and Language Therapist, LD/RMN.

You will be able to work autonomously in the community and use your own initiative using excellent assessment and communication skills; the role carries a manageable caseload and as a senior clinician, you will work alongside other agencies to promote holistic recovery focused care as part of a wider multiagency collaboration.

You are encouraged to review the job description and person specification for further details and please contact us if you have any queries about the post.

Experience of working with a forensic service user group is desirable but not essential as training and supervision.

Regular clinical, professional and managerial supervision is made available on a proactive basis and you will be encouraged to access CPD and role specific training to ensure you deliver a safe, effective, responsive and well led service.

Car driver and use of car within work hours is essential.

The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination of care needs, risk assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence-based care to a defined group of service users who present with high risk and/or forensic history with serious mental ill health, and their carers within the service catchment area.

The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies, Trust community and inpatient teams, police, MAPPA and members of the multi-disciplinary 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 2,800 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 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 5-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 Forensic Team is of the highest standard of evidence based 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, 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 collaboratively develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.

Safeguard patients, staff and public from abuse, neglect and harm.

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

To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Community Forensic Team and with external agencies.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.

To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional